# dba_fetch

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

dba_fetch — Fetch data specified by key

### Description

string dba_fetch ( string `$key` , resource `$handle` )
string dba_fetch ( string `$key` , int `$skip` , resource `$handle` )

dba_fetch() fetches the data specified by `key` from the database specified with `handle` .

### Parameters

`key`

  The key the data is specified by.

  > Note: When working with inifiles this function accepts arrays as keys where index 0 is the group and index 1 is the value name. See: dba_key_split().

`skip`

  The number of key-value pairs to ignore when using cdb databases. This value is ignored for all other databases which do not support multiple keys with the same name.

`handle`

  The database handler, returned by dba_open() or dba_popen().

### Return Values

Returns the associated string if the key/data pair is found, `FALSE` otherwise.

### ChangeLog

Version | Description
--- | ---
4.3 | The `skip` parameter is available to support cdb's capability of multiple keys having the same name.

### See Also

- dba_exists()
- dba_delete()
- dba_insert()
- dba_replace()
- dba_key_split()