Strange problem connecting php to oracle db

[Keith E. Sauvant]

A behaviour we don't understand:

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$user = 'xxx';
$password = 'xxx';
$database = 'xxx.xxx';

$query = 'SELECT 1 FROM DUAL';
$link = OCIlogon($user, $password, $database);

//$parse = OCIParse($link, $query);
unset($link);

$link = OCIlogon($user, $password, $database);
$parse = OCIParse($link, $query);
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-> "... is not a valid oci8 connection resource"

Everything works fine if the first line with $parse is not
commented out. Everything also works fine if we do not
unset $link.

This behaviour occurs with ocilogon(), not with
either ociplogon() or ocinlogon().

Tested with PHP 4.3.11 on Linux, Apache 1.3.33 and Apache
1.3.34, OCI PECL extension 1.1.1, Oracle 10.2.01 and
10.1.0.3.

Best regards
Keith

[Mladen Gogala]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:16:46 +0100, Keith E. Sauvant wrote:

A behaviour we don't understand:
Who is "we"?

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$user = 'xxx';
$password = 'xxx';
$database = 'xxx.xxx';

$query = 'SELECT 1 FROM DUAL';
$link = OCIlogon($user, $password, $database);

//$parse = OCIParse($link, $query);
unset($link);
Why would do that? Unset will call the destructor and will
log you out of the database? Are you trying to log in for
each SQL statement?

$link = OCIlogon($user, $password, $database);
$parse = OCIParse($link, $query);
+++
-> "... is not a valid oci8 connection resource"

Everything works fine if the first line with $parse is not
commented out. Everything also works fine if we do not
unset $link.

This behaviour occurs with ocilogon(), not with
either ociplogon() or ocinlogon().

Tested with PHP 4.3.11 on Linux, Apache 1.3.33 and Apache
1.3.34, OCI PECL extension 1.1.1, Oracle 10.2.01 and
10.1.0.3.

Best regards
Keith

I would have written that like this:

$link = OCIlogon($user, $password, $database);
if (!$link) {
$err=oci_error();
die("General Protection Fault:$err<br>\n");
}
$handle1 = OCIParse($link, $query1);
$handle2 = OCIParse($link, $query2);

/* Note that checking for errors makes no sense as oracle
does error checking only when it attempts to execute
the cursor. */

oci_execute($handle1);
$err=oci_error($link);
if ($err) die("General Protection Fault:$err<br>\n");

oci_execute($handle2);
$err=oci_error($link);
if ($err) die("General Protection Fault:$err<br>\n");

Note that error checking is necessary after each statement as neither OCI8
nor PHP4 support exceptions. I wholeheartedly recommend switching to PHP5
as it is stable enough for production and makes the life of poor
programmer much, much easier.
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[Keith E. Sauvant]

>> A behaviour we don't understand:

Who is "we"?
That is me and my colleagues ;-)
Why would do that? Unset will call the destructor and will
log you out of the database? Are you trying to log in for
each SQL statement?
I do not want to do that. That where just some lines of code to
reproduce my problem.
I would have written that like this: ...

You are absolutely right. But besides that: Can you explain what happens
in my example?

Best regards
Keith

[Mladen Gogala]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:55:39 +0100, Keith E. Sauvant wrote:

You are absolutely right. But besides that: Can you explain what happens
in my example?

You have destructor mess up something and the new connect is not
able to go through. It would be much easier to debug you code
snippet if there was an entry from the error_log file or oci_error
result. This is just guesswork, but that is all that I can tell,
based on what you gave me.

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