<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >dbmnextkey</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="DBM Functions [deprecated]" HREF="ref.dbm.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="dbminsert" HREF="function.dbminsert.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="dbmopen" HREF="function.dbmopen.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation 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.dbminsert.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.dbmopen.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.dbmnextkey" ></A >dbmnextkey</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN17559" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >dbmnextkey -- Retrieves the next key from a DBM database</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN17562" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >dbmnextkey</B > ( resource dbm_identifier, string key)<BR ></BR ><P > Returns the next key after <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >key</I ></TT >. By calling <A HREF="function.dbmfirstkey.html" ><B CLASS="function" >dbmfirstkey()</B ></A > followed by successive calls to <B CLASS="function" >dbmnextkey()</B > it is possible to visit every key/value pair in the dbm database. For example: <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN17577" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. Visiting every key/value pair in a DBM database</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >$key = dbmfirstkey ($dbm_id); while ($key) { echo "$key = " . dbmfetch ($dbm_id, $key) . "\n"; $key = dbmnextkey ($dbm_id, $key); }</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.dbminsert.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.dbmopen.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >dbminsert</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.dbm.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >dbmopen</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >