DbConnect

Available only in MTA SA 1.1.1 r3328 and onwards This function opens a connection to a database and returns an element that can be used with dbQuery

Syntax

element dbConnect ( string databaseType, string host [, string username, string password, string options ] )

Required Arguments

• databaseType: The type of database. There is currently only one supported type: 'sqlite'
• host: The target to connect to. The format of this depends on the database type. For sqlite it is a filepath to a sqlite database file. If the filepath starts with ":/" then the server's global databases directory is used.

Optional Arguments

• username: Not required for sqlite
• password: Not required for sqlite
• options : List of key=value pairs separated by semicolons

Returns

Returns a database connection element unless there are problems, in which case it return false.

Example

This example opens a connection to a sqlite database file in the current resource

local test_db = dbConnect( "sqlite", "file.db" )

This example opens a connection to a sqlite database file in another resource

local test_db = dbConnect( "sqlite", ":resname/file.db" )

This example opens a connection to a sqlite database file in the global databases directory

local test_db = dbConnect( "sqlite", ":/file.db" )

This example opens a connection to a sqlite database file in a sub directory of the global databases directory

local test_db = dbConnect( "sqlite", ":/example/sub/dir/file.db" )

Requirements

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See Also

• executeSQLQuery
• dbConnect
• dbExec
• dbFree
• dbPoll
• dbPrepareString
• dbQuery