<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >ibase_execute</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="InterBase functions" HREF="ref.ibase.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="ibase_errmsg" HREF="function.ibase-errmsg.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="ibase_fetch_object" HREF="function.ibase-fetch-object.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.ibase-errmsg.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.ibase-fetch-object.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.ibase-execute" ></A >ibase_execute</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN40676" ></A ><P > (PHP 3>= 3.0.6, PHP 4 )</P >ibase_execute -- Execute a previously prepared query</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN40679" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >ibase_execute</B > ( int query [, int bind_args])<BR ></BR ><P > Execute a query prepared by <A HREF="function.ibase-prepare.html" ><B CLASS="function" >ibase_prepare()</B ></A >. This is a lot more effective than using <A HREF="function.ibase-query.html" ><B CLASS="function" >ibase_query()</B ></A > if you are repeating a same kind of query several times with only some parameters changing. <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><A NAME="AEN40693" ></A ><P ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php $updates = array( 1 => 'Eric', 5 => 'Filip', 7 => 'Larry' ); $query = ibase_prepare("UPDATE FOO SET BAR = ? WHERE BAZ = ?"); while (list($baz, $bar) = each($updates)) { ibase_execute($query, $bar, $baz); } ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV > </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.ibase-errmsg.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.ibase-fetch-object.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >ibase_errmsg</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.ibase.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >ibase_fetch_object</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >