<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >ibase_connect</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="InterBase functions" HREF="ref.ibase.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="InterBase functions" HREF="ref.ibase.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="ibase_pconnect" HREF="function.ibase-pconnect.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="ref.ibase.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.ibase-pconnect.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.ibase-connect" >ibase_connect</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN14569" ></A >ibase_connect -- Open a connection to an InterBase database </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN14572" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><DIV CLASS="funcsynopsis" ><P ></P ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >int ibase_connect</CODE >(string database, string [<SPAN CLASS="optional" >username</SPAN >] , string [<SPAN CLASS="optional" >password</SPAN >] );<P ></P ></DIV ><P > Opens a connection to an InterBase database. <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >Ibase_connect()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" > 1 2 $dbh = ibase_connect ($host, $username, $password); 3 $stmt = 'SELECT * FROM tblname'; 4 $sth = ibase_query ($dbh, $stmt); 5 while ($row = ibase_fetch_object ($sth)) { 6 print $row->email . "\n"; 7 } 8 ibase_close ($dbh); 9 </PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > See also: <A HREF="function.ibase-pconnect.html" ><B CLASS="function" >ibase_pconnect()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.ibase.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.ibase-pconnect.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >InterBase functions</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.ibase.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >ibase_pconnect</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >