Predefined Constants

The constants below are defined by this extension, and will only be available when the extension has either been compiled into PHP or dynamically loaded at runtime.

The following constants can be passed to ibase_trans() to specify transaction behaviour.

Firebird/InterBase transaction flags

Constant	Description
IBASE_DEFAULT	The default transaction settings are to be used. This default is determined by the client library, which defines it as IBASE_WRITE|IBASE_CONCURRENCY|IBASE_WAIT in most cases.
IBASE_READ	Starts a read-only transaction.
IBASE_WRITE	Starts a read-write transaction.
IBASE_CONSISTENCY	Starts a transaction with the isolation level set to 'consistency', which means the transaction cannot read from tables that are being modified by other concurrent transactions.
IBASE_CONCURRENCY	Starts a transaction with the isolation level set to 'concurrency' (or 'snapshot'), which means the transaction has access to all tables, but cannot see changes that were committed by other transactions after the transaction was started.
IBASE_COMMITTED	Starts a transaction with the isolation level set to 'read committed'. This flag should be combined with either IBASE_REC_VERSION or IBASE_REC_NO_VERSION. This isolation level allows access to changes that were committed after the transaction was started. If IBASE_REC_NO_VERSION was specified, only the latest version of a row can be read. If IBASE_REC_VERSION was specified, a row can even be read when a modification to it is pending in a concurrent transaction.
IBASE_WAIT	Indicated that a transaction should wait and retry when a conflict occurs.
IBASE_NOWAIT	Indicated that a transaction should fail immediately when a conflict occurs.

The following constants can be passed to ibase_fetch_row(), ibase_fetch_assoc() or ibase_fetch_object() to specify fetch behaviour.

Firebird/InterBase fetch flags

Constant	Description
IBASE_FETCH_BLOBS	Also available as IBASE_TEXTfor backward compatibility. Causes BLOB contents to be fetched inline, instead of being fetched as BLOB identifiers.
IBASE_FETCH_ARRAYS	Causes arrays to be fetched inline. Otherwise, array identifiers are returned. Array identifiers can only be used as arguments to INSERT operations, as no functions to handle array identifiers are currently available.
IBASE_UNIXTIME	Causes date and time fields not to be returned as strings, but as UNIX timestamps (the number of seconds since the epoch, which is 1-Jan-1970 0:00 UTC). Might be problematic if used with dates before 1970 on some systems.

The following constants are used to pass requests and options to the service API functions (ibase_server_info(), ibase_db_info(), ibase_backup(), ibase_restore() and ibase_maintain_db()). Please refer to the Firebird/InterBase manuals for the meaning of these options.

IBASE_BKP_IGNORE_CHECKSUMS

IBASE_BKP_IGNORE_LIMBO

IBASE_BKP_METADATA_ONLY

IBASE_BKP_NO_GARBAGE_COLLECT

IBASE_BKP_OLD_DESCRIPTIONS

IBASE_BKP_NON_TRANSPORTABLE

IBASE_BKP_CONVERT

Options to ibase_backup()

IBASE_RES_DEACTIVATE_IDX

IBASE_RES_NO_SHADOW

IBASE_RES_NO_VALIDITY

IBASE_RES_ONE_AT_A_TIME

IBASE_RES_REPLACE

IBASE_RES_CREATE

IBASE_RES_USE_ALL_SPACE

Options to ibase_restore()

IBASE_PRP_PAGE_BUFFERS

IBASE_PRP_SWEEP_INTERVAL

IBASE_PRP_SHUTDOWN_DB

IBASE_PRP_DENY_NEW_TRANSACTIONS

IBASE_PRP_DENY_NEW_ATTACHMENTS

IBASE_PRP_RESERVE_SPACE

IBASE_PRP_RES_USE_FULL

IBASE_PRP_RES

IBASE_PRP_WRITE_MODE

IBASE_PRP_WM_ASYNC

IBASE_PRP_WM_SYNC

IBASE_PRP_ACCESS_MODE

IBASE_PRP_AM_READONLY

IBASE_PRP_AM_READWRITE

IBASE_PRP_SET_SQL_DIALECT

IBASE_PRP_ACTIVATE

IBASE_PRP_DB_ONLINE

IBASE_RPR_CHECK_DB

IBASE_RPR_IGNORE_CHECKSUM

IBASE_RPR_KILL_SHADOWS

IBASE_RPR_MEND_DB

IBASE_RPR_VALIDATE_DB

IBASE_RPR_FULL

IBASE_RPR_SWEEP_DB

Options to ibase_maintain_db()

IBASE_STS_DATA_PAGES

IBASE_STS_DB_LOG

IBASE_STS_HDR_PAGES

IBASE_STS_IDX_PAGES

IBASE_STS_SYS_RELATIONS

Options to ibase_db_info()

IBASE_SVC_SERVER_VERSION

IBASE_SVC_IMPLEMENTATION

IBASE_SVC_GET_ENV

IBASE_SVC_GET_ENV_LOCK

IBASE_SVC_GET_ENV_MSG

IBASE_SVC_USER_DBPATH

IBASE_SVC_SVR_DB_INFO

IBASE_SVC_GET_USERS

Options to ibase_server_info()