PHP Reference

Description

int ibase_timefmt ( string format [, int columntype])

Sets the format of timestamp, date or time type columns returned from queries. Internally, the columns are formatted by c-function strftime(), so refer to its documentation regarding to the format of the string. columntype is one of the constants IBASE_TIMESTAMP, IBASE_DATE and IBASE_TIME. If omitted, defaults to IBASE_TIMESTAMP for backwards compatibility.


<?php

    /* InterBase 6 TIME-type columns will be returned in

     * the form '05 hours 37 minutes'. */

    ibase_timefmt("%H hours %M minutes", IBASE_TIME);

?>

You can set defaults for these formats with the PHP configuration directives ibase.timestampformat, ibase.dateformat and ibase.timeformat.

Note: This function has been removed from PHP 5, use ini_set() instead.