Index // DBOpen


Format:

dbopen SQLiteFile
dbopen( SQLiteFile )

Description:

Open an SQLite database file. If the file does not exist then create it. More information about databases in general and SQLite specifically can be found at http://sqlite.org and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL.

See Also:

DBClose, DBCloseSet, DBExecute, DBFloat, DBInt, DBOpenSet, DBRow, DBString

Example:

#database foo - create a database, populate a table, open a recordset and read data from table.

# create a new database file or open it
dbopen "dbtest.sqlite3"

# delete old foo table - trap error if new database
onerror errortrap
dbexecute "drop table foo;"
offerror
# create and populate
dbexecute "create table foo (id integer, words text, value decimal);"
dbexecute "insert into foo values (1,'one',3.14);"
dbexecute "insert into foo values (2,'two',6.28);"

dbexecute "insert into foo values (3,'three',9.43);"

# open a recordset and loop through the rows of data
dbopenset "select * from foo order by words;"
while dbrow()
	print dbint(0) + dbstring(1) + dbfloat(2)
end while
dbcloseset

# wrap everything up
dbclose
end

errortrap:
# accept error - display nothing - return to next statement
return
will display
1one3.14
3three9.43
2two6.28

Revised:

0.9.6y