Opens a database (original) (raw)

dbase_open

(PHP 5 < 5.3.0, dbase 5, dbase 7)

dbase_open — Opens a database

Description

dbase_open ( string $filename , int $mode ) : resource

Note: When safe mode is enabled, PHP checks whether the files or directories being operated upon have the same UID (owner) as the script that is being executed.

Note:

This function is affected by open_basedir.

Parameters

filename

The name of the database. It can be a relative or absolute path to the file where dBase will store your data.

mode

An integer which correspond to those for the open() system call (Typically 0 means read-only, 1 means write-only, and 2 means read and write).

Note:

You can't open a dBase file in write-only mode as the function will fail to read the headers information and thus you can't use 1 asmode.

As of dbase 7.0.0 you can use DBASE_RDONLY and DBASE_RDWR, respectively, to specify themode.

Changelog

Examples

Example #1 Opening a dBase database file

`<?php// open in read-only mode
$db = dbase_open('/tmp/test.dbf', 0);

if (

$db) {
// read some data ..dbase_close($db);
}?> `

Return Values

Returns a database link identifier if the database is successfully opened, or FALSE if an error occurred.