New to OCI - double results?

[Sonnich]

Hello there

I'm trying to work with the example for OCI... and the $row returns 2
values, the same twice, but my query only have one... code below.

Can anyone explain?

BR
S
$query = 'select distinct(someth ing) from a.b';

$stid = oci_parse($conn X, $query);
if (!$stid) {
$e = oci_error($conn X);
print htmlentities($e['message']);
exit;
}

$r = oci_execute($st id, OCI_DEFAULT);
if (!$r) {
$e = oci_error($stid );
echo htmlentities($e['message']);
exit;
}

print '<table border="1">';
while ($row = oci_fetch_array ($stid, OCI_RETURN_NULL S))
{

print '<tr>';
print "<td>".(count($ row))."</td>";
foreach ($row as $item) {
print '<td>'.$item.' </td>';
}
print '</tr>';
}
print '</table>';

oci_close($conn X);

[Rik]

Sonnich <so************ @elektrobit.com wrote:

Hello there

I'm trying to work with the example for OCI... and the $row returns 2
values, the same twice, but my query only have one... code below.

Can anyone explain?

while ($row = oci_fetch_array ($stid, OCI_RETURN_NULL S))

http://www.php.net/oci_fetch_array

"returns an array with both associative and numeric indices."

So, tell it which one to use either associative:
oci_fetch_assoc ($stid, OCI_RETURN_NULL S)

Or numerical:
oci_fetch_row($ stid, OCI_RETURN_NULL S)

If you don't need the indexes, the last one seems to be the fastest.
--
Rik Wasmus

[Andy Hassall]

On 26 Jan 2007 08:52:57 -0800, "Sonnich" <so************ @elektrobit.com wrote:

>I'm trying to work with the example for OCI... and the $row returns 2
values, the same twice, but my query only have one... code below.

[snip]

while ($row = oci_fetch_array ($stid, OCI_RETURN_NULL S))

oci_fetch_array returns the values twice - once with numeric indexes, and
again with the names of the columns as keys.

http://uk.php.net/oci_fetch_array

The default mode is OCI_BOTH - you don't want that.

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[Sonnich]

I got this to work using
while ($row = oci_fetch_row ($stid))

But not I get another problem, see comment here:

$stid = oci_parse($conn X, $sql2);
if (!$stid)
{
$e = oci_error($conn X);
echo htmlentities($e['message'])."<br>";
}
else
{
$r = oci_execute($st id, OCI_DEFAULT);
// instead of going ahead, it still gives the error here. How do I
stop that.
// the error is correctly catched here anyway, but I'd like to have it
only. Meaning no default response when the query fails.
if(!$r)
{
$e = oci_error($stid );
if(strpos($e['message'],"CONNECT BY loop")!==false)
echo "<font class=\"error\" >Loop error with item:
$Item[$i]</font><p>";
else
echo htmlentities($e['message'])."<br>";
}
else
{

On Jan 26, 6:52 pm, "Sonnich" <sonnich.jen... @elektrobit.com wrote:

Hello there

I'm trying to work with the example for OCI... and the $row returns 2
values, the same twice, but my query only have one... code below.

Can anyone explain?

BR
S

[Mladen Gogala]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:03:12 -0800, Sonnich wrote:

I got this to work using
while ($row = oci_fetch_row ($stid))

But not I get another problem, see comment here:

$stid = oci_parse($conn X, $sql2);
if (!$stid)
{
$e = oci_error($conn X);
echo htmlentities($e['message'])."<br>";
}
else
{
$r = oci_execute($st id, OCI_DEFAULT);
// instead of going ahead, it still gives the error here. How do I
stop that.

By using the standard PHP error suppression operator:
$r = @oci_execute($s tid, OCI_DEFAULT);

I would advise against doing that, but it is a possibility. OCI does
so called deferred parse, which means that parse and execute steps are
bundled into a single step. When your statement fails, it's usually a
serious situation.

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