XLIV. Oracle 8 functions

These functions allow you to access Oracle8 and Oracle7 databases. It uses the Oracle8 Call-Interface (OCI8). You will need the Oracle8 client libraries to use this extension.

This extension is more flexible than the standard Oracle extension. It supports binding of global and local PHP variables to Oracle placeholders, has full LOB, FILE and ROWID support and allows you to use user-supplied define variables.

Table of Contents
OCIDefineByName — Use a PHP variable for the define-step during a SELECT
OCIBindByName — Bind a PHP variable to an Oracle Placeholder
OCILogon — Establishes a connection to Oracle
OCIPLogon — Connect to an Oracle database and log on using a persistant connection. Returns a new session.
OCINLogon — Connect to an Oracle database and log on using a new connection. Returns a new session.
OCILogOff — Disconnects from Oracle
OCIExecute — Execute a statement
OCICommit — Commits outstanding transactions
OCIRollback — Rolls back outstanding transactions
OCINewDescriptor — Initialize a new empty descriptor LOB/FILE (LOB is default)
OCIRowCount — Gets the number of affected rows
OCINumCols — Return the number of result columns in a statement
OCIResult — Returns coulumn value for fetched row
OCIFetch — Fetches the next row into result-buffer
OCIFetchInto — Fetches the next row into result-array
OCIFetchStatement — Fetch all rows of result data into an array.
OCIColumnIsNULL — test whether a result column is NULL
OCIColumnSize — return result column size
OCIServerVersion — Return a string containing server version information.
OCIStatementType — Return the type of an OCI statement.
OCINewCursor — return a new cursor (Statement-Handle) - use this to bind ref-cursors!
OCIFreeStatement — Free all resources associated with a statement.
OCIFreeCursor — Free all resources associated with a cursor.
OCIColumnName — Returns the name of a column.
OCIColumnType — Returns the data type of a column.
OCIParse — Parse a query and return a statement
OCIError — Return the last error of stmt|conn|global. If no error happened returns false.
OCIInternalDebug — Enables or disables internal debug output. By default it is disabled