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Zend_Db_Adaptor Documentation explains

Some RDBMS brands support auto-incrementing primary keys. A table defined this way generates a primary key value automatically during an INSERT of a new row. The return value of the insert() method is not the last inserted ID, because the table might not have an auto-incremented column. Instead, the return value is the number of rows affected (usually 1).

If your table is defined with an auto-incrementing primary key, you can call the lastInsertId() method after the insert. This method returns the last value generated in the scope of the current database connection.

So ...

$id = $db->lastInsertId();

Should work

Your question is very unclear. Nevertheless, I think that at least a part of a problem you have is that you are confusing insert method from Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract (or Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mysql) with the one from Zend_Db_Table_Abstract. Both these classes have methods that are called insert, but they work differently.

insert methods from Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract returns the "The number of affected rows", while insert from Zend_Db_Table_Abstract returns "The primary key of the row inserted".

The link that you provided is using insert from Zend_Db_Table_Abstract. However, it seems that you are using insert from `Zend_Db_Table_Abstract. For this reason you are always getting 1 in return.