PHP Manual: Returns the type of a statement

Description

stringfalse oci_statement_type(resource $statement)

Returns a keyword identifying the type of the OCI8 statement.

Parameters

statement: A valid OCI8 statement identifier from oci_parse.

Return Values

Returns the type of statement as one of the following strings.

**Statement type**
Return String	Notes
`ALTER`
`BEGIN`
`CALL`
`CREATE`
`DECLARE`
`DELETE`
`DROP`
`INSERT`
`SELECT`
`UPDATE`
`UNKNOWN`

Returns false on error.

Examples

Example #1 oci_statement_type example

<?php

$conn = oci_connect('hr', 'welcome', 'localhost/XE');

$stid = oci_parse($conn, 'DELETE FROM departments WHERE department_id = 130;');
if (oci_statement_type($stid) == "DELETE") {
    trigger_error('You are not allowed to delete from this table', E_USER_ERROR);
}
else {
    oci_execute($stid);  // delete the row
}

oci_free_statement($stid);
oci_close($conn);

?>