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dbase_create

dbase_create -- Creates a dBase database

Description

int dbase_create(string filename, array fields);

The fields parameter is an array of arrays, each array describing the format of one field in the database. Each field consists of a name, a character indicating the field type, a length, and a precision.

The types of fields available are:

L

Boolean. These do not have a length or precision.

M

Memo. (Note that these aren't supported by PHP.) These do not have a length or precision.

D

Date (stored as YYYYMMDD). These do not have a length or precision.

N

Number. These have both a length and a precision (the number of digits after the decimal point).

C

String.

If the database is successfully created, a dbase_identifier is returned, otherwise false is returned.

Example 1. Creating a dBase database file

  1 
  2 // "database" name
  3 $dbname = "/tmp/test.dbf";
  4 
  5 // database "definition"
  6 $def =
  7     array(
  8         array("date",     "D"),
  9         array("name",     "C",  50),
 10         array("age",      "N",   3, 0),
 11         array("email",    "C", 128),
 12         array("ismember", "L")
 13     );
 14 
 15 // creation
 16 if (!dbase_create($dbname, $def))
 17     print "<strong>Error!</strong>";
 18 

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