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dbase_open

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

Opens a database

Description

dbase_open(string $path, int $mode): resource|false

dbase_open() opens a dBase database with the given access mode.

Func

path

The path 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 as mode.

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

Returns a database resource on success, Falseforfailure.

Version	Description
PECL dbase 7.0.0	The return value is now a `resource` instead of an `int`.

Opening a dBase database file

php

<?php

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

if ($db) {
  // read some data ..
  
  dbase_close($db);
}

?>