I know it's documented in the manual, but aside from being less useful than it could be (sometimes it's useful to get empty object vars too), it's posing a few problems to the PEAR ibase DB driver.

The PHP interbase module has no way of returning a hash representation of a row, so the two available solutions are:

a) hack something with ibase_num_fields and ibase_field_info to builf a hash (often gets Interbase sync errors if used with a hash ref as target)

b) use ibase_fetch_object and either cast it to array, or use get_object_vars(), in both cases rows from the same result set have a different field number, due to missing NULLs and empty values; clearly this is not acceptable

Two possible solutions:

- modify get_object_vars() to return all object values or
- add an ibase_fetch_array() or whatever function