Connecting to my car

I have bought an iphone and an ipod nano, and i want to connect them to my car stereo system. First problem: i have two cars with different aux inputs. A peugeot 207 that in the glove compartment has two red-white rca sockets, and a chevrolet epica with and integrated stereo with an aux line input on it that seems to be a 3.5 mm socket like the one for the headsets. The question is that, in both kind of connections in the other extreme of the wire the type of connector that plug into the ipod could be a multiple pin connector (like the dock connector) or a 3.5 mm plug (i suppose that goes into the headset conector of the ipod). Is there any difference of the functions i get with the 3.5 or the dock? i.e. with the dock connector the ipod also charges the battery or i can use the car stereo system to switch betweeen songs?.

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