Oracle OCI8

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Installing/Configuring
  • Requirements
  • Installation
  • Testing
  • Runtime Configuration
• Predefined Constants
• Examples
• OCI8 Connection Handling and Connection Pooling
• OCI8 Fast Application Notification (FAN) Support
• OCI8 Transparent Application Failover (TAF) Support
• OCI8 and DTrace Dynamic Tracing
• Supported Datatypes
• OCI8 Functions
  • oci_bind_array_by_name — Binds a PHP array to an Oracle PL/SQL array parameter
  • oci_bind_by_name — Binds a PHP variable to an Oracle placeholder
  • oci_cancel — Cancels reading from cursor
  • oci_client_version — Returns the Oracle client library version
  • oci_close — Closes an Oracle connection
  • oci_commit — Commits the outstanding database transaction
  • oci_connect — Connect to an Oracle database
  • oci_define_by_name — Associates a PHP variable with a column for query fetches
  • oci_error — Returns the last error found
  • oci_execute — Executes a statement
  • oci_fetch — Fetches the next row from a query into internal buffers
  • oci_fetch_all — Fetches multiple rows from a query into a two-dimensional array
  • oci_fetch_array — Returns the next row from a query as an associative or numeric array
  • oci_fetch_assoc — Returns the next row from a query as an associative array
  • oci_fetch_object — Returns the next row from a query as an object
  • oci_fetch_row — Returns the next row from a query as a numeric array
  • oci_field_is_null — Checks if a field in the currently fetched row is null
  • oci_field_name — Returns the name of a field from the statement
  • oci_field_precision — Tell the precision of a field
  • oci_field_scale — Tell the scale of the field
  • oci_field_size — Returns field's size
  • oci_field_type — Returns a field's data type name
  • oci_field_type_raw — Tell the raw Oracle data type of the field
  • oci_free_descriptor — Frees a descriptor
  • oci_free_statement — Frees all resources associated with statement or cursor
  • oci_get_implicit_resultset — Returns the next child statement resource from a parent statement resource that has Oracle Database Implicit Result Sets
  • oci_lob_copy — Copies large object
  • oci_lob_is_equal — Compares two LOB/FILE locators for equality
  • oci_new_collection — Allocates new collection object
  • oci_new_connect — Connect to the Oracle server using a unique connection
  • oci_new_cursor — Allocates and returns a new cursor (statement handle)
  • oci_new_descriptor — Initializes a new empty LOB or FILE descriptor
  • oci_num_fields — Returns the number of result columns in a statement
  • oci_num_rows — Returns number of rows affected during statement execution
  • oci_parse — Prepares an Oracle statement for execution
  • oci_password_change — Changes password of Oracle's user
  • oci_pconnect — Connect to an Oracle database using a persistent connection
  • oci_register_taf_callback — Register a user-defined callback function for Oracle Database TAF
  • oci_result — Returns field's value from the fetched row
  • oci_rollback — Rolls back the outstanding database transaction
  • oci_server_version — Returns the Oracle Database version
  • oci_set_action — Sets the action name
  • oci_set_call_timeout — Sets a millisecond timeout for database calls
  • oci_set_client_identifier — Sets the client identifier
  • oci_set_client_info — Sets the client information
  • oci_set_db_operation — Sets the database operation
  • oci_set_edition — Sets the database edition
  • oci_set_module_name — Sets the module name
  • oci_set_prefetch — Sets number of rows to be prefetched by queries
  • oci_set_prefetch_lob — Sets the amount of data prefetched for each CLOB or BLOB.
  • oci_statement_type — Returns the type of a statement
  • oci_unregister_taf_callback — Unregister a user-defined callback function for Oracle Database TAF
• OCICollection — The OCICollection class
  • OCICollection::append — Appends element to the collection
  • OCICollection::assign — Assigns a value to the collection from another existing collection
  • OCICollection::assignElem — Assigns a value to the element of the collection
  • OCICollection::free — Frees the resources associated with the collection object
  • OCICollection::getElem — Returns value of the element
  • OCICollection::max — Returns the maximum number of elements in the collection
  • OCICollection::size — Returns size of the collection
  • OCICollection::trim — Trims elements from the end of the collection
• OCILob — The OCILob class
  • OCILob::append — Appends data from the large object to another large object
  • OCILob::close — Closes LOB descriptor
  • OCILob::eof — Tests for end-of-file on a large object's descriptor
  • OCILob::erase — Erases a specified portion of the internal LOB data
  • OCILob::export — Exports LOB's contents to a file
  • OCILob::flush — Flushes/writes buffer of the LOB to the server
  • OCILob::free — Frees resources associated with the LOB descriptor
  • OCILob::getBuffering — Returns current state of buffering for the large object
  • OCILob::import — Imports file data to the LOB
  • OCILob::load — Returns large object's contents
  • OCILob::read — Reads part of the large object
  • OCILob::rewind — Moves the internal pointer to the beginning of the large object
  • OCILob::save — Saves data to the large object
  • OCILob::saveFile — Alias of OCILob::import
  • OCILob::seek — Sets the internal pointer of the large object
  • OCILob::setBuffering — Changes current state of buffering for the large object
  • OCILob::size — Returns size of large object
  • OCILob::tell — Returns the current position of internal pointer of large object
  • OCILob::truncate — Truncates large object
  • OCILob::write — Writes data to the large object
  • OCILob::writeTemporary — Writes a temporary large object
  • OCILob::writeToFile — Alias of OCILob::export
• OCI8 Obsolete Aliases and Functions
  • oci_internal_debug — Enables or disables internal debug output
  • ocibindbyname — Alias of oci_bind_by_name
  • ocicancel — Alias of oci_cancel
  • ocicloselob — Alias of OCILob::close
  • ocicollappend — Alias of OCICollection::append
  • ocicollassign — Alias of OCICollection::assign
  • ocicollassignelem — Alias of OCICollection::assignElem
  • ocicollgetelem — Alias of OCICollection::getElem
  • ocicollmax — Alias of OCICollection::max
  • ocicollsize — Alias of OCICollection::size
  • ocicolltrim — Alias of OCICollection::trim
  • ocicolumnisnull — Alias of oci_field_is_null
  • ocicolumnname — Alias of oci_field_name
  • ocicolumnprecision — Alias of oci_field_precision
  • ocicolumnscale — Alias of oci_field_scale
  • ocicolumnsize — Alias of oci_field_size
  • ocicolumntype — Alias of oci_field_type
  • ocicolumntyperaw — Alias of oci_field_type_raw
  • ocicommit — Alias of oci_commit
  • ocidefinebyname — Alias of oci_define_by_name
  • ocierror — Alias of oci_error
  • ociexecute — Alias of oci_execute
  • ocifetch — Alias of oci_fetch
  • ocifetchinto — Obsolete variant of oci_fetch_array, oci_fetch_object, oci_fetch_assoc and oci_fetch_row
  • ocifetchstatement — Alias of oci_fetch_all
  • ocifreecollection — Alias of OCICollection::free
  • ocifreecursor — Alias of oci_free_statement
  • ocifreedesc — Alias of OCILob::free
  • ocifreestatement — Alias of oci_free_statement
  • ociinternaldebug — Alias of oci_internal_debug
  • ociloadlob — Alias of OCILob::load
  • ocilogoff — Alias of oci_close
  • ocilogon — Alias of oci_connect
  • ocinewcollection — Alias of oci_new_collection
  • ocinewcursor — Alias of oci_new_cursor
  • ocinewdescriptor — Alias of oci_new_descriptor
  • ocinlogon — Alias of oci_new_connect
  • ocinumcols — Alias of oci_num_fields
  • ociparse — Alias of oci_parse
  • ociplogon — Alias of oci_pconnect
  • ociresult — Alias of oci_result
  • ocirollback — Alias of oci_rollback
  • ocirowcount — Alias of oci_num_rows
  • ocisavelob — Alias of OCILob::save
  • ocisavelobfile — Alias of OCILob::import
  • ociserverversion — Alias of oci_server_version
  • ocisetprefetch — Alias of oci_set_prefetch
  • ocistatementtype — Alias of oci_statement_type
  • ociwritelobtofile — Alias of OCILob::export
  • ociwritetemporarylob — Alias of OCILob::writeTemporary