ibase_connect
ibase_connect
Open a connection to a database
resource **ibase_connect** string $database string $username string $password string $charset int $buffers int $dialect string $role int $sync
Establishes a connection to an Firebird/InterBase server.
In case a second call is made to with
the same arguments, no new link will be established, but instead, the link
identifier of the already opened link will be returned. The link to the
server will be closed as soon as the execution of the script ends, unless
it's closed earlier by explicitly calling .
ibase_connect``ibase_close
database
The argument has to be a valid path to
database file on the server it resides on. If the server is not local,
it must be prefixed with either 'hostname:' (TCP/IP), 'hostname/port:'
(TCP/IP with interbase server on custom TCP port), '//hostname/'
(NetBEUI), depending on the connection
protocol used.
database
username
The user name. Can be set with the
php.ini directive.
ibase.default_user
password
The password for . Can be set with the
php.ini directive.
username``ibase.default_password
charset
is the default character set for a
database.
charset
buffers
is the number of database buffers to
allocate for the server-side cache. If 0 or omitted, server chooses
its own default.
buffers
dialect
selects the default SQL dialect for any
statement executed within a connection, and it defaults to the highest
one supported by client libraries.
dialect
roleFunctional only with InterBase 5 and up.
sync
Returns an Firebird/InterBase link identifier on success, or false on error.
If you get some error like "arithmetic exception, numeric overflow, or
string truncation. Cannot transliterate character between character sets"
(this occurs when you try use some character with accents) when using this
and after you must set the character set
(i.e. ISO8859_1 or your current character set).
ibase_query
Voorbeeld: example
<?php
$host = 'localhost:/path/to/your.gdb';
$dbh = ibase_connect($host, $username, $password);
$stmt = 'SELECT * FROM tblname';
$sth = ibase_query($dbh, $stmt);
while ($row = ibase_fetch_object($sth)) {
echo $row->email, "\n";
}
ibase_free_result($sth);
ibase_close($dbh);
?>
ibase_pconnect``ibase_close