XVIII. dBase functions
Introduction
These functions allow you to access records stored in dBase-format (dbf) databases.
There is no support for indexes or memo fields. There is no support for locking, too. Two concurrent webserver processes modifying the same dBase file will very likely ruin your database.
dBase files are simple sequential files of fixed length records. Records are appended to the end of the file and delete records are kept until you call dbase_pack().
We recommend that you do not use dBase files as your production database. Choose any real SQL server instead; MySQL or Postgres are common choices with PHP. dBase support is here to allow you to import and export data to and from your web database, because the file format is commonly understood by Windows spreadsheets and organizers.
- Table of Contents
- dbase_add_record -- Add a record to a dBase database
- dbase_close -- Close a dBase database
- dbase_create -- Creates a dBase database
- dbase_delete_record -- Deletes a record from a dBase database
- dbase_get_header_info -- Get the header info of a dBase database
- dbase_get_record_with_names -- Gets a record from a dBase database as an associative array
- dbase_get_record -- Gets a record from a dBase database
- dbase_numfields -- Find out how many fields are in a dBase database
- dbase_numrecords -- Find out how many records are in a dBase database
- dbase_open -- Opens a dBase database
- dbase_pack -- Packs a dBase database
- dbase_replace_record -- Replace a record in a dBase database