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lockdb

Purpose: To place a file lock on disk to prevent further writing to the database

txtSQL >= 2.2.0 Beta

void lockDB ( $database )

This function will return TRUE if $database was successfully locked and FALSE otherwise. A file lock is basically a file created that tells txtSQL that it is locked.

Example 12: locked()

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<?php

if ( $sql->lockdb('testDB') ) 

{

    print 'testDB is locked';

}

else 

{

    print 'testDB could not be locked, txtSQL said: '.$sql->get_last_error(); 

}

?>

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