dbase_open Opens a database &reftitle.description; intdbase_open stringfilename intmode dbase_open opens a dBase database with the given access mode. ¬e.sm.uidcheck; ¬e.open-basedir.func; &reftitle.parameters; filename The name of the database. It can be a relative or absolute path to the file where dBase will store your data. mode An integer which correspond to those for the open() system call (Typically 0 means read-only, 1 means write-only, and 2 means read and write). You can't open a dBase file in write-only mode as the function will fail to read the headers information and thus you can't use 1 as mode. &reftitle.examples; ]]> &reftitle.returnvalues; Returns a database link identifier if the database is successfully opened, or &false; if an error occurred. &reftitle.seealso; dbase_create dbase_close