Introduction
InterBase is a popular database put out by Borland/Inprise. More
information about InterBase is available at http://www.interbase.com/. Oh, by the way, InterBase
just joined the open source movement!
Note:
Full support for InterBase 6 was added in PHP 4.0.
This database uses a single quote (') character for escaping, a
behavior similar to the Sybase database, add to your
php.ini the following directive:
Installation
To enable InterBase support configure PHP
--with-interbase[=DIR], where DIR is the
InterBase base install directory, which defaults to
/usr/interbase.
Note to Win32 Users:
In order to enable this module on a Windows environment, you must copy
gds32.dll from the DLL folder of the PHP/Win32 binary
package to the SYSTEM32 folder of your windows machine. (Ex: C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32
or C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32). In case you installed the InterBase database server on the
same machine PHP is running on, you will have this DLL already. Therefore you don't
need to copy gds32.dll from the DLL folder.
Runtime Configuration
The behaviour of these functions is affected by settings in php.ini.
Table 1. InterBase configuration options
Name | Default | Changeable |
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ibase.allow_persistent | "1" | PHP_INI_SYSTEM |
ibase.max_persistent | "-1" | PHP_INI_SYSTEM |
ibase.max_links | "-1" | PHP_INI_SYSTEM |
ibase.default_user | NULL | PHP_INI_ALL |
ibase.default_password | NULL | PHP_INI_ALL |
ibase.timestampformat | "%m/%d/%Y%H:%M:%S" | PHP_INI_ALL |
ibase.dateformat | "%m/%d/%Y" | PHP_INI_ALL |
ibase.timeformat | "%H:%M:%S" | PHP_INI_ALL |
For further details and definition of the PHP_INI_* constants see
ini_set().
Predefined Constants
The constants below are defined by this extension, and
will only be available when the extension has either
been compiled into PHP or dynamically loaded at runtime.