<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >dbase_create</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="dBase Functions" HREF="ref.dbase.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="dbase_close" HREF="function.dbase-close.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="dbase_delete_record" HREF="function.dbase-delete-record.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2"></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" >Manual PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.dbase-close.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.dbase-delete-record.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.dbase-create" ></A >dbase_create</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN17965" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 , PHP 5)</P >dbase_create -- Creates a dBase database</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN17968" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >dbase_create</B > ( string filename, array fields)<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >dbase_create()</B > creates a dBase database in the file <VAR CLASS="parameter" >filename</VAR >, with the fields <VAR CLASS="parameter" >fields</VAR >. </P ><P > The <VAR CLASS="parameter" >fields</VAR > 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. </P ><P > The types of fields available are: <P ></P ><DIV CLASS="variablelist" ><DL ><DT >L</DT ><DD ><P > Boolean. These do not have a length or precision. </P ></DD ><DT >M</DT ><DD ><P > Memo. (Note that these aren't supported by PHP.) These do not have a length or precision. </P ></DD ><DT >D</DT ><DD ><P > Date (stored as YYYYMMDD). These do not have a length or precision. </P ></DD ><DT >N</DT ><DD ><P > Number. These have both a length and a precision (the number of digits after the decimal point). </P ></DD ><DT >C</DT ><DD ><P > String. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV > </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Notã: </B > The fieldnames are limited in length and must not exceed 10 chars, 0 < chars <= 10. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > If the database is successfully created, a dbase_identifier is returned, otherwise <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > is returned. <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN18011" ></A ><P ><B >Exemplu 1. Creating a dBase database file</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><font color="#000000"> <font color="#0000BB"><?php<br /><br /></font><font color="#FF8000">// "database" name<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$dbname </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#DD0000">"/tmp/test.dbf"</font><font color="#007700">;<br /><br /></font><font color="#FF8000">// database "definition"<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$def </font><font color="#007700">=<br /> array(<br /> array(</font><font color="#DD0000">"date"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">"D"</font><font color="#007700">),<br /> array(</font><font color="#DD0000">"name"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">"C"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">50</font><font color="#007700">),<br /> array(</font><font color="#DD0000">"age"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">"N"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">3</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">0</font><font color="#007700">),<br /> array(</font><font color="#DD0000">"email"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">"C"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">128</font><font color="#007700">),<br /> array(</font><font color="#DD0000">"ismember"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">"L"</font><font color="#007700">)<br /> );<br /><br /></font><font color="#FF8000">// creation<br /></font><font color="#007700">if (!</font><font color="#0000BB">dbase_create</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$dbname</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">$def</font><font color="#007700">))<br /> echo </font><font color="#DD0000">"<strong>Error!</strong>"</font><font color="#007700">;<br /><br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?></font> </font> </code></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.dbase-close.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Acasã</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.dbase-delete-record.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >dbase_close</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.dbase.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Sus</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >dbase_delete_record</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >