read oracle clob with pear::MDB via oci8

[freak]

hi

i have problems reading an oracle(9i) clob from a php-script with the
MDB-class from pear.

the table files has 3 fields:
id integer
document clob
picture clob

an entry is written to the table with the following code :

require_once('. ....pear\MDB.ph p');
$mdb=&MDB::conn ect('oci8://user:pw@db');
...
$str_prepStat = 'INSERT INTO files VALUES (1,?,NULL)';
$preparedQuery = $mdb->prepareQuery($ str_prepStat);
if(!MDB::isErro r($preparedQuer y))
{
$clobData1 = array(
'Error'=>'',
'Data'=>'some lob data'
);
$clob1 = $mdb->createLob($clo bData1);

$mdb->setParamClob($ preparedQuery, 1, $clob1, 'document');

if(!MDB::isErro r($error = $mdb->executeQuery($ preparedQuery)) )
{
echo 'ok<br>';
$mdb->destroyLob($cl ob1);
}
else
{
echo $error->getMessage() ;
}
}

the entry definitly is in the table as i can see when i use sqlplus.

now all i would like to do is to read this content of this line back
into php, i use the following script, taken from the docs that come
with the MDB-bundle (slightly modified/echos inserted):

if(($result=$md b->query("SELEC T document FROM files WHERE id=1")))
{
if($mdb->endOfResult($r esult))
{
echo "No rows where returned.\n";
}
else
{
echo 'rows <br>';
$clob=$mdb->fetchClob($res ult,0,"document ");
if(!MDB::isErro r($clob))
{
echo '!MDB::isError( $clob) = true, $mdb->endOfLOB($clob ) :
'.$mdb->endOfLOB($clob ).'<br>';
while(!$mdb->endOfLOB($clob ))
{
echo ' t<br>';
if(MDB::isError ($error = $mdb->readLob($clob, $data,8000)<0))
{
echo $error->getMessage() ;
break;
}
else
{
echo 'error in readlob';
}
echo $data;
}
$mdb->destroyLob($cl ob);
}
else
{
echo '!MDB::isError( $clob) = false<br>';
echo 'error in clob<br>';
echo $clob->getMessage() ;
}
}
$mdb->freeResult($re sult);
}
else
{
echo $result->getMessage() ;
}

when executed the message is :error in readlob, which i have no
explanation for?

has anyone had similar problems and/or can help me ?