Well, DAL seems to have some miscellaneous functions which may or may not be usefull to you. Below you'll find them with a short description
This functions gives you the last insert you made, well the last insert you made with the current object :-)) It gives you the result as an object. Just call fetchLastInsert and you get it, or NULL when it fails.
object fetchLastInsert(void);
This functions provides you with the last autogenerated ID.
int fetchInsertID(void);
This function returns the names of the drivers which are available. The return value is an array.
array enumDrivers(void);
You can get the full name of the driver you're currently using by calling getDriverName.
string getDriverName(void);