<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >oci_define_by_name</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Oracle 8 functions" HREF="ref.oci8.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="oci_connect" HREF="function.oci-connect.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="oci_error" HREF="function.oci-error.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.oci-connect.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.oci-error.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.oci-define-by-name" ></A >oci_define_by_name</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN81665" ></A ><P > (PHP 5)</P >oci_define_by_name -- Uses a PHP variable for the define-step during a SELECT </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN81668" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >bool <B CLASS="methodname" >oci_define_by_name</B > ( resource statement, string column_name, mixed &variable [, int type])<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >oci_define_by_name()</B > defines PHP variables for fetches of SQL-Columns. Be careful that Oracle uses ALL-UPPERCASE column names, whereby in your select you can also write lowercase. <B CLASS="function" >oci_define_by_name()</B > expects the <VAR CLASS="parameter" >column_name</VAR > to be in uppercase. If you define a variable that doesn't exists in your select statement, no error will issued. </P ><P > If you need to define an abstract datatype (LOB/ROWID/BFILE) you must allocate it first using <A HREF="function.oci-new-descriptor.html" ><B CLASS="function" >oci_new_descriptor()</B ></A >. See also the <A HREF="function.oci-bind-by-name.html" ><B CLASS="function" >oci_bind_by_name()</B ></A > function. </P ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN81692" ></A ><P ><B >Exemplu 1. <B CLASS="function" >oci_define_by_name()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><font color="#000000"> <font color="#0000BB"><?php<br /></font><font color="#FF8000">/* oci_define_by_name example - thies at thieso dot net (980219) */<br /><br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$conn </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#0000BB">oci_connect</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#DD0000">"scott"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">"tiger"</font><font color="#007700">);<br /><br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$stmt </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#0000BB">oci_parse</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$conn</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">"SELECT empno, ename FROM emp"</font><font color="#007700">);<br /><br /></font><font color="#FF8000">/* the define MUST be done BEFORE oci_execute! */<br /><br /></font><font color="#0000BB">oci_define_by_name</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$stmt</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">"EMPNO"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">$empno</font><font color="#007700">);<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">oci_define_by_name</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$stmt</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">"ENAME"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">$ename</font><font color="#007700">);<br /><br /></font><font color="#0000BB">oci_execute</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$stmt</font><font color="#007700">);<br /><br />while (</font><font color="#0000BB">oci_fetch</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$stmt</font><font color="#007700">)) {<br /> echo </font><font color="#DD0000">"empno:" </font><font color="#007700">. </font><font color="#0000BB">$empno </font><font color="#007700">. </font><font color="#DD0000">"\n"</font><font color="#007700">;<br /> echo </font><font color="#DD0000">"ename:" </font><font color="#007700">. </font><font color="#0000BB">$ename </font><font color="#007700">. </font><font color="#DD0000">"\n"</font><font color="#007700">;<br />}<br /><br /></font><font color="#0000BB">oci_free_statement</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$stmt</font><font color="#007700">);<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">oci_close</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$conn</font><font color="#007700">);<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?></font> </font> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Notã: </B > In PHP versions before 5.0.0 you must use <A HREF="function.ocidefinebyname.html" ><B CLASS="function" >ocidefinebyname()</B ></A > instead. This name still can be used, it was left as alias of <B CLASS="function" >oci_define_by_name()</B > for downwards compatability. This, however, is deprecated and not recommended. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.oci-connect.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Acasã</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.oci-error.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >oci_connect</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.oci8.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Sus</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >oci_error</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >