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ora_columntype

Name

ora_columntype — Gets the type of an Oracle result column.

Synopsis

string ora_columntype(cursor, column); resource cursor: Cursor handle int column: Column number

Returns

Column type; FALSE on error

Description

Returns the field type of the specified column number. As with the column names, the column types are returned in uppercase. Column numbering starts at 0.

Note

As of versions 3.0 and 4.0

Example

Example 880. Display column types

// open a connection
if (!$db = @ora_logon("dev@ORCL","dev")) {
   $error = ora_error();
   printf("There was an error connecting. Error was: %s", $error);
   exit();
}

// open a cursor
$curs = ora_open($db);

// check that SQL is OK
if (!@ora_parse($curs,"SELECT * FROM xphone_numbers")) {
   echo "Error in parse. Error was :", ora_error($curs);
} else {
   ora_exec($curs);
   $ncols = ora_numcols($curs);

   echo "<table>\n";
   echo "<tr><th>Name</th><th>Type</th></tr>\n";

   // loop through the number of columns, returning the column type
   for ( $i = 0; $i < $ncols; $i++ ) {
      print"<tr>";
      printf("<td>%s</td>", ora_columnname($curs,$i));
      printf("<td>%s</td>", ora_columntype($curs,$i));
      print"</tr>";
   }
}

// log off and disconnect
ora_close($curs);
ora_logoff($db);

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