<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >odbc_connect</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Unified ODBC functions" HREF="ref.odbc.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="odbc_commit" HREF="function.odbc-commit.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="odbc_cursor" HREF="function.odbc-cursor.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" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.odbc-commit.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.odbc-cursor.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.odbc-connect" ></A >odbc_connect</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN64909" ></A ><P > (PHP 3>= 3.0.6, PHP 4 )</P >odbc_connect -- Connect to a datasource</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN64912" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >resource <B CLASS="methodname" >odbc_connect</B > ( string dsn, string user, string password [, int cursor_type])<BR ></BR ><P > Returns an ODBC connection id or 0 (<TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT >) on error. </P ><P > The connection id returned by this functions is needed by other ODBC functions. You can have multiple connections open at once. The optional fourth parameter sets the type of cursor to be used for this connection. This parameter is not normally needed, but can be useful for working around problems with some ODBC drivers. </P ><P > With some ODBC drivers, executing a complex stored procedure may fail with an error similar to: "Cannot open a cursor on a stored procedure that has anything other than a single select statement in it". Using SQL_CUR_USE_ODBC may avoid that error. Also, some drivers don't support the optional row_number parameter in <A HREF="function.odbc-fetch-row.html" ><B CLASS="function" >odbc_fetch_row()</B ></A >. SQL_CUR_USE_ODBC might help in that case, too. </P ><P > The following constants are defined for cursortype: </P ><P > <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P > SQL_CUR_USE_IF_NEEDED </P ></LI ><LI ><P > SQL_CUR_USE_ODBC </P ></LI ><LI ><P > SQL_CUR_USE_DRIVER </P ></LI ><LI ><P > SQL_CUR_DEFAULT </P ></LI ></UL > </P ><P > For persistent connections see <A HREF="function.odbc-pconnect.html" ><B CLASS="function" >odbc_pconnect()</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.odbc-commit.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.odbc-cursor.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >odbc_commit</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.odbc.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >odbc_cursor</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >