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<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>
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<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>
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<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>.
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<code class="parameter">key</code></dt>
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<p class="para">
The key the data is specified by.
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<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>.
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<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.
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</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>.
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</dd>
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<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.
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<div class="refsect1 changelog" id="refsect1-function.dba-fetch-changelog">
<h3 class="title">Changelog</h3>
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<th>Version</th>
<th>Description</th>
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<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.
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.dba-fetch-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<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>
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