How to SELECT newly INSERTED row without having unique ID to reference

[BuildMyWeb]

firstly, apologies on my TOPIC TITLE.  i couldnt think of how better to write it.

 

anywho, i am inserting a new row of data into a table. immediately after inserting it, i want to select the unique value in the 'id' row.  two questions. 

 

1. how can i reference this newly inserted row if the only unique value is the id (primary auto-increment)?

2. is there a way to insert this new row AND select that id value in one query?

[mac_gyver]

both the mysqli and pdo extensions have a last insert id method/function - http://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.insert-id.php or http://us1.php.net/manual/en/pdo.lastinsertid.php

[BuildMyWeb]

thx mac!  ill check that out