Simple Ingres Example

The following simple example shows how to connect to an Ingres database, execute a query, print resulting rows and disconnect from the database.

Example #1 Simple Ingres Example


<?php
// Connecting, selecting database
$link = ingres_connect("database", "user", "password")
    or die("Could not connect: " . ingres_error($link));
echo "Connected successfully";

// Select from a table that exists in all Ingres databases
$query = "SELECT * FROM iitables";
$result = ingres_query($link,$query) or die("Query failed: " .
ingres_error($link));

// Print results in HTML
// relid - table name
// relowner - table owner
echo "<table>\n";
while ($iitables = ingres_fetch_object($result)) {
    echo "\t<tr>\n";
    echo "\t\t<td>" . $iitables->relid . "</td>\n";
    echo "\t\t<td>" . $iitables->relowner . "</td>\n";
    echo "\t</tr>\n";
}
echo "</table>\n";

// Free results
ingres_free_result($result);

// Commit transaction
ingres_commit($link);

// Closing connection
ingres_close($link);
?>