<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >dba_firstkey</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Database (dbm-style) abstraction layer functions" HREF="ref.dba.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="dba_fetch" HREF="function.dba-fetch.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="dba_insert" HREF="function.dba-insert.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.dba-fetch.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.dba-insert.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.dba-firstkey" >dba_firstkey</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN6731" ></A >dba_firstkey -- Fetch first key</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN6734" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><DIV CLASS="funcsynopsis" ><P ></P ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >string dba_firstkey</CODE >(int handle);<P ></P ></DIV ><P > <B CLASS="function" >dba_firstkey()</B > returns the first key of the database specified by <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >handle</I ></TT > and resets the internal key pointer. This permits a linear search through the whole database.</P ><P > <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >handle</I ></TT > is a database handle returned by <A HREF="function.dba-open.html" ><B CLASS="function" >dba_open()</B ></A >.</P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >dba_firstkey()</B > returns the key or false depending on whether it succeeds or fails, respectively.</P ><P > See also: <A HREF="function.dba-nextkey.html" ><B CLASS="function" >dba_nextkey()</B ></A > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.dba-fetch.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.dba-insert.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >dba_fetch</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.dba.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >dba_insert</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >