On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 11:26:03 +0100, Andy Hassall wrote:
The Oracle-related changes in PHP included in Zend Core for Oracle are, if I
understand correctly, basically just in the new OCI8 driver. This is being
released back into the core distribution when it's stable, and is already
available separately through PECL in beta status:
http://pecl.php.net/package/oci8
The latest PECL oci8 extension doesn't work with PHP 5.1.0RC1. Here is
what I get when I run it with "extension=oci8 .so":
[Sun Sep 25 12:07:38 2005] [notice] child pid 28695 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
When I disable it, it runs fine. I linked PHP with the extension that
comes with PHP5.1 (--with-oci8=$ORACLE_HO ME) and it works.
Did you play with PDO_OCI? I am disappointed by the fact that it cannot
describe a cursor. The following little program fails: $ cat test_pdo.php
#!/usr/local/bin/php <?php
$SQL1="select * from emp where ename like :ENAME"; $name='%'; try {
$dbh = new PDO("oci:dbname =local", "scott", "tiger");
$sth=$dbh->prepare($SQL1) ;
$sth->bindParam(":EN AME",$name,PDO_ PARAM_STR,100);
$sth->execute();
$cnt=$sth->columnCount( );
echo "This statement returns ",$cnt, " columns\n";
for($i=0;$i<$cn t;$i++) {
print_r($sth->getColumnMeta( $i));
print("\n");
}
} catch (PDOException $e) {
echo "Failed to obtain database handle " . $e->getMessage()," <br>\n";
}
?>
Here is what happens:
$ ./test_pdo.php
This statement returns 8 columns
PHP Warning: PDOStatement::g etColumnMeta(): SQLSTATE[IM001]: Driver does not support this function: driver doesn't support meta data in /home/mgogala/tmp/test_pdo.php on line 13
PHP Warning: PDOStatement::g etColumnMeta(): SQLSTATE[IM001]: Driver does not support this function: driver doesn't support meta data in /home/mgogala/tmp/test_pdo.php on line 13
PHP Warning: PDOStatement::g etColumnMeta(): SQLSTATE[IM001]: Driver does not support this function: driver doesn't support meta data in /home/mgogala/tmp/test_pdo.php on line 13
PHP Warning: PDOStatement::g etColumnMeta(): SQLSTATE[IM001]: Driver does not support this function: driver doesn't support meta data in /home/mgogala/tmp/test_pdo.php on line 13
PHP Warning: PDOStatement::g etColumnMeta(): SQLSTATE[IM001]: Driver does not support this function: driver doesn't support meta data in /home/mgogala/tmp/test_pdo.php on line 13
PHP Warning: PDOStatement::g etColumnMeta(): SQLSTATE[IM001]: Driver does not support this function: driver doesn't support meta data in /home/mgogala/tmp/test_pdo.php on line 13
PHP Warning: PDOStatement::g etColumnMeta(): SQLSTATE[IM001]: Driver does not support this function: driver doesn't support meta data in /home/mgogala/tmp/test_pdo.php on line 13
PHP Warning: PDOStatement::g etColumnMeta(): SQLSTATE[IM001]: Driver does not support this function: driver doesn't support meta data in /home/mgogala/tmp/test_pdo.php on line 13
Basically, what is says is that driver doesn't support returning column
name, type, length, scale an precision for returned column in a query.
That functionality is, of course, available in the existing OCI8 driver.
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