What is the best practice for retrieving the auto-generated ID after inserting data into a table in PHP?

After inserting data into a table in PHP, the best practice for retrieving the auto-generated ID is to use the `lastInsertId()` method provided by the PDO (PHP Data Objects) extension. This method returns the ID of the last inserted row in the database. 

// Assuming $pdo is your PDO object
$stmt = $pdo->prepare("INSERT INTO table_name (column1, column2) VALUES (:value1, :value2)");
$stmt->bindParam(':value1', $value1);
$stmt->bindParam(':value2', $value2);
$stmt->execute();

$lastInsertedId = $pdo->lastInsertId();
echo "The auto-generated ID for the last inserted row is: " . $lastInsertedId;

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PHP MySQL auto-generated ID lastInsertId database operations

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