It was when I used something like

$sql = sprintf('INSERT INTO SOMETABLE (BINGINT_FIELD) VALUES (%d)',
$bigint_value);

The %d represents an integer in the sprintf-syntax and so 2147483647 was
inserted if $bigint_value was a bigger number. Replacing %d with %s
solved the problem.

There is no problem with fetching BIGINT values from a table because the
ibase_fetch_xxx() functions returning them as strings.

Lutz
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OK great - thanks
Alan

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