Introductie

The dbx module is a database abstraction layer (db 'X', where 'X' is a supported database). The dbx functions allow you to access all supported databases using a single calling convention. The dbx-functions themselves do not interface directly to the databases, but interface to the modules that are used to support these databases.

Afhankelijkheden

To be able to use a database with the dbx-module, the module must be either linked or loaded into PHP, and the database module must be supported by the dbx-module. Currently, following databases are supported, but others will follow:

• FrontBase (available from PHP 4.1.0).

• Microsoft SQL Server

• MySQL

• ODBC

• PostgreSQL

• Sybase-CT (available from PHP 4.2.0).

• Oracle (oci8) (available from PHP 4.3.0).

Documentation for adding additional database support to dbx can be found at .

Installatie

In order to have these functions available, you must compile PHP with dbx support by using the --enable-dbx option and all options for the databases that will be used, e.g. for MySQL you must also specify --with-mysql=[DIR]. To get other supported databases to work with the dbx-module refer to their specific documentation.

Configuratie tijdens scriptuitvoer

Het gedrag van deze functies wordt be�nvloed vanuit php.ini.

Here is a short explanation of the configuration directives.

Resource types

There are two resource types used in the dbx module. The first one is the link-object for a database connection, the second a result-object which helds the result of a query.

Voorgedefineerde constanten

Deze constanten worden gedefineerd door deze extensie, en zullen alleen beschikbaar zijn als de extensie met PHP is meegecompileerd, of als deze dynamisch is geladen vanuit een script.