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<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5.3.7, PECL OCI8 >= 1.4.6)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">oci_client_version</span> — <span class="dc-title">Returns the Oracle client library version</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>oci_client_version</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam">void</span>
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Returns a string containing the version number of the Oracle C client library that PHP is linked with.
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None
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Returns the version number as a string.
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<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>oci_client_version()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /> </span><span style="color: #007700">echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Client Version: " </span><span style="color: #007700">. </span><span style="color: #0000BB">oci_client_version</span><span style="color: #007700">(); </span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Client version: 11.2.0.2<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
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Oracle libraries before 10<em class="emphasis">g</em>R2 do not have the underlying
functionality to get the client library version number. The
string "Unknown" will be returned in this case.
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<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.oci-server-version.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">oci_server_version()</a> - Returns the Oracle Database version</span></li>
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