ibase_blob_close
Name
ibase_blob_close — Close an open BLOB
Synopsis
string ibase_blob_close(blob);
int blob: Handle to an open
BLOB
Returns
BLOB's internal ID in database on success, FALSE on error
Description
Closes an open BLOB created with ibase_blob_create() or
accessed with ibase_blob_open() . All BLOBs
opened during your programs execution must be closed, and
all BLOBs created either closed or discarded with ibase_blob_cancel() .
Otherwise you risk losing data.
Remember that you also must close a BLOB before inserting
it into the database or replacing a BLOB column's
contents with a new BLOB. The string returned by this
function is what you use with INSERT or UPDATE queries.
If the return value is FALSE, something bad happened (for
example, no free space on disk) and if the BLOB was
created for writing with ibase_blob_create() , you
must discard it with ibase_blob_cancel() .
Available in PHP 3 since 3.0.7, PHP 4 since 4.0RC1
Input parameter blob will
change its type to resource in the future.
Example
Example 529. See example for
ibase_blob_add(), above
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