<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >fbsql_connect</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual de PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="FrontBase Functions" HREF="ref.fbsql.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="fbsql_commit" HREF="function.fbsql-commit.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="fbsql_create_blob" HREF="function.fbsql-create-blob.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual de PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.fbsql-commit.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Anterior</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.fbsql-create-blob.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Siguiente</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.fbsql-connect" ></A >fbsql_connect</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN17440" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.0.6)</P >fbsql_connect -- Open a connection to a FrontBase Server</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN17443" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >resource <B CLASS="methodname" >fbsql_connect</B > ( [string hostname [, string username [, string password]]])<BR ></BR ><P > Returns a positive FrontBase link identifier on success, or an error message on failure. </P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >fbsql_connect()</B > establishes a connection to a FrontBase server. The following defaults are assumed for missing optional parameters: <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >hostname</I ></TT > = '<TT CLASS="constant" ><B >NULL</B ></TT >', <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >username</I ></TT > = '_SYSTEM' and <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >password</I ></TT > = empty password. </P ><P > If a second call is made to <B CLASS="function" >fbsql_connect()</B > with the same arguments, no new link will be established, but instead, the link identifier of the already opened link will be returned. </P ><P > 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 <A HREF="function.fbsql-close.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fbsql_close()</B ></A >. </P ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN17468" ></A ><P ><B >Ejemplo 1. <B CLASS="function" >fbsql_connect()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php $link = fbsql_connect ("localhost", "_SYSTEM", "secret") or die ("Could not connect"); print ("Connected successfully"); fbsql_close ($link); ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > See also <A HREF="function.fbsql-pconnect.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fbsql_pconnect()</B ></A > and <A HREF="function.fbsql-close.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fbsql_close()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.fbsql-commit.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Anterior</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Inicio</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.fbsql-create-blob.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Siguiente</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >fbsql_commit</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.fbsql.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Subir</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >fbsql_create_blob</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >