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The following constants to use with `maxdb_options` are defined. For further description of these constants see &url.maxdb.doc;.

# 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.