ibase_blob_open

(PHP 3 >= 3.0.7, PHP 4, PHP 5)

ibase_blob_open --  Open blob for retrieving data parts

Description

resource ibase_blob_open ( resource link_identifier, string blob_id )

resource ibase_blob_open ( string blob_id )

ibase_blob_open() opens an existing BLOB for reading. It returns a BLOB handle for later use with ibase_blob_get() or FALSE on failure.

See also ibase_blob_close(), ibase_blob_echo() and ibase_blob_get().


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Kevin Hamilton
28-Feb-2006 05:39
While it is true that PHP4 allows only one parameter, it is not true that PHP5 allows only 2 parameters.  The correct function signature for PHP5 should be:

resource ibase_blob_open([ resource link_identifier, ] string blob_id)

If a link_identifier is not provided, then the "default" link_identifier will be used.  The default link identifier is assigned every time you call ibase_connect or ibase_pconnect, so if you have multiple connections it will be  whichever was connected LAST.