How to get last insert id safely?

Hi All, How to get last insert id safely in php with persistent connection to mysql?because there may be larger concurrence requests to the php to query insert statements.Example,the php query following two sql statements: mysql_query("insert into tb(id,name) values(null,$username)"); $res = mysql_query("select last_insert_id()"); And in any time,user A insert one row to the table tb,and the same time before user A query last_insert_id(),user B insert another row to the same table too. In this situation,will user A or B query last_insert_id() function get the correct id for he/her just insert? Any ideas?Thanks! Regards Jacky