<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >OCIDefineByName</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Oracle 8 functions" HREF="ref.oci8.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="OCICommit" HREF="function.ocicommit.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="OCIError" HREF="function.ocierror.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></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" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.ocicommit.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.ocierror.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.ocidefinebyname" ></A >OCIDefineByName</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN67042" ></A ><P > (PHP 3>= 3.0.7, PHP 4 )</P >OCIDefineByName -- Use a PHP variable for the define-step during a SELECT </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN67045" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >bool <B CLASS="methodname" >OCIDefineByName</B > ( int stmt, string Column-Name, mixed variable [, int type])<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >OCIDefineByName()</B > binds 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" >OCIDefineByName()</B > expects the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >Column-Name</I ></TT > to be in uppercase. If you define a variable that doesn't exists in you select statement, no error will be given! </P ><P > If you need to define an abstract datatype (LOB/ROWID/BFILE) you need to allocate it first using <A HREF="function.ocinewdescriptor.html" ><B CLASS="function" >OCINewDescriptor()</B ></A > function. See also the <A HREF="function.ocibindbyname.html" ><B CLASS="function" >OCIBindByName()</B ></A > function. </P ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN67069" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. OCIDefineByName</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" ><?php /* OCIDefineByName example - thies@thieso.net (980219) */ $conn = OCILogon("scott","tiger"); $stmt = OCIParse($conn,"select empno, ename from emp"); /* the define MUST be done BEFORE ociexecute! */ OCIDefineByName($stmt,"EMPNO",$empno); OCIDefineByName($stmt,"ENAME",$ename); OCIExecute($stmt); while (OCIFetch($stmt)) { echo "empno:".$empno."\n"; echo "ename:".$ename."\n"; } OCIFreeStatement($stmt); OCILogoff($conn); ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></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.ocicommit.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.ocierror.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >OCICommit</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.oci8.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >OCIError</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >