<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >dbase_open</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="dBase functions" HREF="ref.dbase.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="dbase_create" HREF="function.dbase-create.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="dbase_close" HREF="function.dbase-close.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.dbase-create.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.dbase-close.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.dbase-open" >dbase_open</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN7385" ></A >dbase_open -- Opens a dBase database</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN7388" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><DIV CLASS="funcsynopsis" ><P ></P ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >int dbase_open</CODE >(string filename, int flags);<P ></P ></DIV ><P > The flags correspond to those for the open() system call. (Typically 0 means read-only, 1 means write-only, and 2 means read and write.) </P ><P > Returns a dbase_identifier for the opened database, or false if the database couldn't be opened. </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.dbase-create.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.dbase-close.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >dbase_create</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.dbase.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >dbase_close</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >