Here's a simple example to use the dba_open function
<?php
$id = dba_open("/tmp/test.db", "n", "gdbm");
if (!$id) {
echo "dba_open failed\n";
exit;
}
dba_replace("key", "This is an example!", $id);
if (dba_exists("key", $id)) {
echo dba_fetch("key", $id);
dba_delete("key", $id);
}
dba_close($id);
?>