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 to use with maxdb_options are defined. For further description of these constants see » http://maxdb.sap.com/documentation/.

MaxDB PHP client constants
Constant Description
MAXDB_COMPNAME The component name used to initialise the SQLDBC runtime environment.
MAXDB_APPLICATION The application to be connected to the database.
MAXDB_APPVERSION The version of the application.
MAXDB_SQLMODE The SQL mode.
MAXDB_UNICODE TRUE, if the connection is an unicode (UCS2) client or FALSE, if not.
MAXDB_TIMEOUT The maximum allowed time of inactivity after which the connection to the database is closed by the system.
MAXDB_ISOLATIONLEVEL Specifies whether and how shared locks and exclusive locks are implicitly requested or released.
MAXDB_PACKETCOUNT The number of different request packets used for the connection.
MAXDB_STATEMENTCACHESIZE The number of prepared statements to be cached for the connection for re-use.
MAXDB_CURSORPREFIX The prefix to use for result tables that are automatically named.

The function maxdb_fetch_array uses a constant for the different types of result arrays. The following constants are defined:

MaxDB fetch constants
Constant Description
MAXDB_ASSOC Columns are returned into the array having the fieldname as the array index.
MAXDB_ASSOC_UPPER Columns are returned into the array having the upper case fieldname as the array index.
MAXDB_ASSOC_LOWER Columns are returned into the array having the lower case fieldname as the array index.
MAXDB_BOTH Columns are returned into the array having both a numerical index and the fieldname as the array index.
MAXDB_NUM Columns are returned into the array having a numerical index to the fields. This index starts with 0, the first field in the result.