<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >sybase_select_db</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="Sybase functions" HREF="ref.sybase.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="sybase_result" HREF="function.sybase-result.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Tokenizer functions" HREF="ref.tokenizer.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.sybase-result.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="ref.tokenizer.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.sybase-select-db" ></A >sybase_select_db</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN92682" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >sybase_select_db -- select Sybase database</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN92685" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >bool <B CLASS="methodname" >sybase_select_db</B > ( string database_name, int link_identifier)<BR ></BR ><P > Returns: <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT > on success, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > on error </P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >sybase_select_db()</B > sets the current active database on the server that's associated with the specified link identifier. If no link identifier is specified, the last opened link is assumed. If no link is open, the function will try to establish a link as if <A HREF="function.sybase-connect.html" ><B CLASS="function" >sybase_connect()</B ></A > was called, and use it. </P ><P > Every subsequent call to <A HREF="function.sybase-query.html" ><B CLASS="function" >sybase_query()</B ></A > will be made on the active database. </P ><P > See also: <A HREF="function.sybase-connect.html" ><B CLASS="function" >sybase_connect()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.sybase-pconnect.html" ><B CLASS="function" >sybase_pconnect()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.sybase-query.html" ><B CLASS="function" >sybase_query()</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.sybase-result.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="ref.tokenizer.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >sybase_result</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.sybase.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Tokenizer functions</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >