Firebird/InterBase Functions

fbird_add_user — Alias of ibase_add_user
fbird_affected_rows — Alias of ibase_affected_rows
fbird_backup — Alias of ibase_backup
fbird_blob_add — Alias of ibase_blob_add
fbird_blob_cancel — Cancel creating blob
fbird_blob_close — Alias of ibase_blob_close
fbird_blob_create — Alias of ibase_blob_create
fbird_blob_echo — Alias of ibase_blob_echo
fbird_blob_get — Alias of ibase_blob_get
fbird_blob_import — Alias of ibase_blob_import
fbird_blob_info — Alias of ibase_blob_info
fbird_blob_open — Alias of ibase_blob_open
fbird_close — Alias of ibase_close
fbird_commit — Alias of ibase_commit
fbird_commit_ret — Alias of ibase_commit_ret
fbird_connect — Alias of ibase_connect
fbird_db_info — Alias of ibase_db_info
fbird_delete_user — Alias of ibase_delete_user
fbird_drop_db — Alias of ibase_drop_db
fbird_errcode — Alias of ibase_errcode
fbird_errmsg — Alias of ibase_errmsg
fbird_execute — Alias of ibase_execute
fbird_fetch_assoc — Alias of ibase_fetch_assoc
fbird_fetch_object — Alias of ibase_fetch_object
fbird_fetch_row — Alias of ibase_fetch_row
fbird_field_info — Alias of ibase_field_info
fbird_free_event_handler — Alias of ibase_free_event_handler
fbird_free_query — Alias of ibase_free_query
fbird_free_result — Alias of ibase_free_result
fbird_gen_id — Alias of ibase_gen_id
fbird_maintain_db — Alias of ibase_maintain_db
fbird_modify_user — Alias of ibase_modify_user
fbird_name_result — Alias of ibase_name_result
fbird_num_fields — Alias of ibase_num_fields
fbird_num_params — Alias of ibase_num_params
fbird_param_info — Alias of ibase_param_info
fbird_pconnect — Alias of ibase_pconnect
fbird_prepare — Alias of ibase_prepare
fbird_query — Alias of ibase_query
fbird_restore — Alias of ibase_restore
fbird_rollback — Alias of ibase_rollback
fbird_rollback_ret — Alias of ibase_rollback_ret
fbird_server_info — Alias of ibase_server_info
fbird_service_attach — Alias of ibase_service_attach
fbird_service_detach — Alias of ibase_service_detach
fbird_set_event_handler — Alias of ibase_set_event_handler
fbird_trans — Alias of ibase_trans
fbird_wait_event — Alias of ibase_wait_event
ibase_add_user — Add a user to a security database
ibase_affected_rows — Return the number of rows that were affected by the previous query
ibase_backup — Initiates a backup task in the service manager and returns immediately
ibase_blob_add — Add data into a newly created blob
ibase_blob_cancel — Cancel creating blob
ibase_blob_close — Close blob
ibase_blob_create — Create a new blob for adding data
ibase_blob_echo — Output blob contents to browser
ibase_blob_get — Get len bytes data from open blob
ibase_blob_import — Create blob, copy file in it, and close it
ibase_blob_info — Return blob length and other useful info
ibase_blob_open — Open blob for retrieving data parts
ibase_close — Close a connection to an InterBase database
ibase_commit — Commit a transaction
ibase_commit_ret — Commit a transaction without closing it
ibase_connect — Open a connection to a database
ibase_db_info — Request statistics about a database
ibase_delete_user — Delete a user from a security database
ibase_drop_db — Drops a database
ibase_errcode — Return an error code
ibase_errmsg — Return error messages
ibase_execute — Execute a previously prepared query
ibase_fetch_assoc — Fetch a result row from a query as an associative array
ibase_fetch_object — Get an object from a InterBase database
ibase_fetch_row — Fetch a row from an InterBase database
ibase_field_info — Get information about a field
ibase_free_event_handler — Cancels a registered event handler
ibase_free_query — Free memory allocated by a prepared query
ibase_free_result — Free a result set
ibase_gen_id — Increments the named generator and returns its new value
ibase_maintain_db — Execute a maintenance command on the database server
ibase_modify_user — Modify a user to a security database
ibase_name_result — Assigns a name to a result set
ibase_num_fields — Get the number of fields in a result set
ibase_num_params — Return the number of parameters in a prepared query
ibase_param_info — Return information about a parameter in a prepared query
ibase_pconnect — Open a persistent connection to an InterBase database
ibase_prepare — Prepare a query for later binding of parameter placeholders and execution
ibase_query — Execute a query on an InterBase database
ibase_restore — Initiates a restore task in the service manager and returns immediately
ibase_rollback — Roll back a transaction
ibase_rollback_ret — Roll back a transaction without closing it
ibase_server_info — Request information about a database server
ibase_service_attach — Connect to the service manager
ibase_service_detach — Disconnect from the service manager
ibase_set_event_handler — Register a callback function to be called when events are posted
ibase_trans — Begin a transaction
ibase_wait_event — Wait for an event to be posted by the database

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21 years ago

If you are using VirtualHosts with Apache, you might find useful the following directive:

php_flag magic_quotes_sybase on

Use it in any VirtualHost and it will be set locally to that VirtualHost without interfering with any global setting.
This is an example:

<VirtualHost 555.666.777.888>
   ServerName www.samplehost.com
   DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm
   php_flag magic_quotes_sybase on
</VirtualHost>

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lars at dybdahl dot net ¶

21 years ago

It is not possible to use interbase/firebird without initiating transactions. It seems that transactions are not automatically committed or rolled back at the end of a script, so remember to end all interbase enabled scripts with ibase_rollback() or ibase_commit().

Worse is, that if you use ibase_pconnect (recommended), transactions survive from one request to the next. So that if you don't rollback your transaction at the end of the script, another user's request might continue the transaction that the first request opened.

This has two implications:
1) Clicking refresh in your browser won't make you see newer data, because you still watch data from the same transaction.
2) Some php scripts might fail occassionally and not fail in other occasions, depending on with apache server thread and thereby which transaction they start using.

Unfortunately, there is no such thing as
if (ibase_intransaction()) ibase_rollback();

so be sure that ALL your scripts end with an ibase_rollback() or ibase_commit();

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felixlee at singnet dot com dot sg ¶

21 years ago

Here's an example for getting results back from stored procedure in firebird.
The example make use of the stored procedure in Employee.gdb and the show_langs procedure.


$host = 'localhost:X:/firebird/examples/Employee.gdb';
$username='SYSDBA';
$password='masterkey';

$dbh = ibase_connect ( $host, $username, $password ) or die ("error in db connect");
 $stmt="Select * from SHOW_LANGS('SRep',4,'Italy')";
 $query = ibase_prepare($stmt);
 $rs=ibase_execute($query);
$row = ibase_fetch_row($rs);

echo $row[0];

/* free result */
ibase_free_query($query);
ibase_free_result($rs);

/* close db */
ibase_close($dbh);
?>

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sysop at smartnettechnologies dot com ¶

16 years ago

This example have 2 problems my be the autor writes it to fast but in the first case use one var for define user pass and and the use other one for call them and in secon step use comas after the ; 

$db = '/path/to/database.gdb';
$user = 'username';
$password = 'password';
$res = ibase_connect($db,$dbuser,$dbpass) or die("<br>" . ibase_errmsg());

// Query
$sql="SELECT * FROM table;"

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johan at essay dot org ¶

24 years ago

For those who have problem with returning values from Stored Procedures in PHP-Interbase,  I have found a solution.   Use a select sentence like this:

select * from sp_prodecure(param, ...)

However, it is important that the procedure has a SUSPEND statement or else the procedure won't return any values.


But the "message length" (see above note) bug that you encounter when you try to execute a procedure should be fixed !

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fortega at uamericas dot net ¶

17 years ago

Here is a minimalistic code example. Be sure to create an user and a database in order to make it work.

<?php
// Minimalistic code example

// Connection
$db = '/path/to/database.gdb';
$user = 'username';
$password = 'password';
$res = ibase_connect($db,$dbuser,$dbpass) or die("<br>" . ibase_errmsg());

// Query
$sql="SELECT * FROM table;"
$result=ibase_query($res,$sql) or die(ibase_errmsg());
while($row=ibase_fetch_object($result)){
// use $row->FIELDNAME not $row->fieldname
print $row->FIELDNAME;
}
ibase_free_result($result);

// Closing
ibase_close($res) or die("<br>" . ibase_errmsg());
?>

The following code can be used when creating tables in order to get auto incrementing fields:

<?php

// This function generates an autoincrement field, such as MySQL AUTO_INCREMENT.
function generate_autoincrement($tablename,$primarykey){
// * Generator
dbexec('CREATE GENERATOR GEN_' . $tablename . '_PK;');
// * Trigger
dbexec('CREATE TRIGGER INC_' . $primarykey . ' FOR ' . $tablename
. chr(13) . 'ACTIVE BEFORE INSERT POSITION 0'
. chr(13) . 'AS'
. chr(13) . 'BEGIN'
. chr(13) . 'IF (NEW.' . $primarykey . ' IS NULL) THEN'
. chr(13) . 'NEW.' . $primarykey . '= GEN_ID(GEN_' . $tablename . '_PK, 1);'
. chr(13) . 'END');
}
?>

Usage: <?php generate_autoincrement('table','column name'); ?>

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