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<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5, PECL OCI8 >= 1.1.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">oci_free_descriptor</span> — <span class="dc-title">Frees a descriptor</span></p>
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<span class="type">bool</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>oci_free_descriptor</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">resource</span> <code class="parameter">$descriptor</code></span>
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Frees a descriptor allocated by <span class="function"><a href="function.oci-new-descriptor.html" class="function">oci_new_descriptor()</a></span>.
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Returns <strong><code>TRUE</code></strong> on success or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> on failure.
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<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
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This function is commonly used as a method <a href="oci-lob.free.html" class="link">OCI-LOB::free</a>.
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<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"><a href="oci-lob.free.html" class="link">OCI-LOB::free</a></li>
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