dbase_add_record

(PHP 5 < 5.3.0, dbase 5, dbase 7)

dbase_add_recordAdds a record to a database

Description

dbase_add_record(resource $database, array $data): bool

Adds the given data to the database.

Parameters

database

The database resource, returned by dbase_open() or dbase_create().

data

An indexed array of data. The number of items must be equal to the number of fields in the database, otherwise dbase_add_record() will fail.

Note:

If you're using dbase_get_record() return value for this parameter, remember to reset the key named deleted.

Return Values

Returns true on success or false on failure.

Changelog

Version Description
dbase 7.0.0 database is now a resource instead of an int.

Examples

Example #1 Inserting a record in a dBase database

<?php

// open in read-write mode
$db = dbase_open('/tmp/test.dbf', 2);

if (
$db) {
dbase_add_record($db, array(
date('Ymd'),
'Maxim Topolov',
'23',
'max@example.com',
'T'));
dbase_close($db);
}

?>

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heinrich at c-tera dot de
21 years ago
Field type incompatible inputs can cause PHP to crash or strange errors to occur. After finding that out it was easy to fill also "big" dbase-files with size bigger than 15 MB. Don't let your enthusiasm be broken by inexact error messages! :-)
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