<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Fetch data specified by key</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.dba-exists.html">dba_exists</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.dba-firstkey.html">dba_firstkey</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.dba.html">DBA Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="function.dba-fetch" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">dba_fetch</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">dba_fetch</span> — <span class="dc-title">Fetch data specified by key</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.dba-fetch-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>dba_fetch</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$key</code></span> , <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">resource</span> <code class="parameter">$handle</code></span> )</div> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>dba_fetch</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$key</code></span> , <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter">$skip</code></span> , <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">resource</span> <code class="parameter">$handle</code></span> )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> <span class="function"><strong>dba_fetch()</strong></span> fetches the data specified by <code class="parameter">key</code> from the database specified with <code class="parameter">handle</code>. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.dba-fetch-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <code class="parameter">key</code></dt> <dd> <p class="para"> The key the data is specified by. </p> <blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>: <p class="para"> When working with inifiles this function accepts arrays as keys where index 0 is the group and index 1 is the value name. See: <span class="function"><a href="function.dba-key-split.html" class="function">dba_key_split()</a></span>. </p> </p></blockquote> </dd> <dt> <code class="parameter">skip</code></dt> <dd> <p class="para"> The number of key-value pairs to ignore when using cdb databases. This value is ignored for all other databases which do not support multiple keys with the same name. </p> </dd> <dt> <code class="parameter">handle</code></dt> <dd> <p class="para"> The database handler, returned by <span class="function"><a href="function.dba-open.html" class="function">dba_open()</a></span> or <span class="function"><a href="function.dba-popen.html" class="function">dba_popen()</a></span>. </p> </dd> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.dba-fetch-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Returns the associated string if the key/data pair is found, <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> otherwise. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 changelog" id="refsect1-function.dba-fetch-changelog"> <h3 class="title">Changelog</h3> <p class="para"> <table class="doctable informaltable"> <thead> <tr> <th>Version</th> <th>Description</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody class="tbody"> <tr> <td>4.3.0</td> <td> The <code class="parameter">skip</code> parameter is available to support cdb's capability of multiple keys having the same name. </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.dba-fetch-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"><span class="function"><a href="function.dba-exists.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">dba_exists()</a> - Check whether key exists</span></li> <li class="member"><span class="function"><a href="function.dba-delete.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">dba_delete()</a> - Delete DBA entry specified by key</span></li> <li class="member"><span class="function"><a href="function.dba-insert.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">dba_insert()</a> - Insert entry</span></li> <li class="member"><span class="function"><a href="function.dba-replace.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">dba_replace()</a> - Replace or insert entry</span></li> <li class="member"><span class="function"><a href="function.dba-key-split.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">dba_key_split()</a> - Splits a key in string representation into array representation</span></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.dba-exists.html">dba_exists</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.dba-firstkey.html">dba_firstkey</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.dba.html">DBA Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>