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ibase_pconnect

Name

ibase_pconnect — Open a persistent database connection

Synopsis

resource ibase_pconnect(database[, username][, password][, charset][, buffers][, dialect][, role]); string database: Path to the database file string username (optional): Username string password (optional): Password string charset (optional): Name of character set the client is using int buffers (optional): Number of cache buffers the database should allocate int dialect (optional): Version number of InterBase's SQL dialect to use on the connection string role (optional): Database access role to use

Returns

Persistent connection handle, FALSE on error

Description

Connections opened with ibase_pconnect() won't close when your script ends. They do stay open for reuse in the future, and you'll get a connection handle to this already open connection when you call ibase_pconnect() with the same parameters as before.

Note

Available in PHP 3 since 3.0.6, PHP 4

Example

Example 547. Opening a persistent database connection

$db = ibase_pconnect('/opt/interbase/examples/employee.gdb') or die("Couldn't connect to database!");

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