(PHP 4, PHP 5)
ibase_blob_get — Get len bytes data from open blob
This function returns at most len bytes from a BLOB that has been opened for reading by ibase_blob_open().
Hinweis:
It is not possible to read from a BLOB that has been opened for writing by ibase_blob_create().
Returns at most len bytes from the BLOB, or FALSE on failure.
Beispiel #1 ibase_blob_get() example
<?php
$result    = ibase_query("SELECT blob_value FROM table");
$data      = ibase_fetch_object($result);
$blob_data = ibase_blob_info($data->BLOB_VALUE);
$blob_hndl = ibase_blob_open($data->BLOB_VALUE);
echo         ibase_blob_get($blob_hndl, $blob_data[0]);
?>
The ways mentioned above won't work with segmented blobs. To fix this, I use the following:
(btw, $result->MFOTO is an image in the database)
<?php
    $result = ibase_fetch_object($result);
    
    /*
     ibase_blob_info array: 
     [0] bloblength(total)
     [1] number of segments
     [2] size of largest segment
     [3] stream or segmented blob
     [4] ??
    */
    $blobinfo = ibase_blob_info($result->MFOTO); 
    
    $blobhandle = ibase_blob_open($result->MFOTO);
    for($i = 0; $i < $blobinfo[1]; $i++){
        $readsize = $blobinfo[2];
        if($i == ($blobinfo[1] - 1)){
            $readsize = $blobinfo[0] - (($blobinfo[1] - 1) * $blobinfo[2]);
        }
        $totalimage .= ibase_blob_get($blobhandle, $readsize);
    }
    ibase_blob_close($blobhandle);
    echo $totalimage; 
?>
This should do the trick ;)
The first example is wrong, is missing ibase_blob_close() function.
The correct example is :
<?php
   $sql      = "SELECT blob_value FROM table";
   $result    = ibase_query($sql);
   $data      = ibase_fetch_object($result);
   $blob_data = ibase_blob_info($data->BLOB_VALUE);
   $blob_hndl = ibase_blob_open($data->BLOB_VALUE);
   print        ibase_blob_get($blob_hndl, $blob_data[0]);
   // without close blob conection, php and ibase_blob_get() do not run.
  ibase_blob_close($blob_hndl);  
?>
I found examples like these:
$sql = "SELECT ID, CONTENTTYPE, BLOBSIZE, DATA,NAME ";
$sql.= " FROM OM_BLOB WHERE ID = 42";
$result = ibase_query($sql);
while ($row=ibase_fetch_object($result))
{
    $blob_data = ibase_blob_info( $row->DATA);
    $blob_hndl = ibase_blob_open($row->DATA);
    $image = ibase_blob_get( $blob_hndl, $blob_data[0]);
}
but this won't work for large blobs.
One solution for big blobs is to retrieve them by chunks:
$sql = "SELECT ID, CONTENTTYPE, BLOBSIZE, DATA,NAME ";
$sql.= " FROM OM_BLOB WHERE ID = 42";
$result = ibase_query($sql);
while ($row=ibase_fetch_object($result))
{
    $image = ibase_blob_get($blob_hndl,8192);
    while($data = ibase_blob_get($blob_hndl, 8192)){ 
        $image .= $data; 
    }
}