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Returns field's size
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oci_field_size

(PHP 5, PECL OCI8 >= 1.1.0)

oci_field_sizeReturns field's size

Description

int oci_field_size ( resource $statement , mixed $field )

Returns the size of a field.

Parameters

statement

A valid OCI statement identifier.

field

Can be the field's index (1-based) or name.

Return Values

Returns the size of a field in bytes, or FALSE on errors.

Examples

Example #1 oci_field_size() example

<?php
$conn 
oci_connect("scott""tiger");
$stmt oci_parse($conn"SELECT * FROM emp");
oci_execute($stmt);

echo 
"<table border=\"1\">";
echo 
"<tr>";
echo 
"<th>Name</th>";
echo 
"<th>Type</th>";
echo 
"<th>Length</th>";
echo 
"</tr>";

$ncols oci_num_fields($stmt);

for (
$i 1$i <= $ncols$i++) {
    
$column_name  oci_field_name($stmt$i);
    
$column_type  oci_field_type($stmt$i);
    
$column_size  oci_field_size($stmt$i);
    echo 
"<tr>";
    echo 
"<td>$column_name</td>";
    echo 
"<td>$column_type</td>";
    echo 
"<td>$column_size</td>";
    echo 
"</tr>";
}

echo 
"</table>";

oci_free_statement($stmt);
oci_close($conn);
?>

Notes

Note:

In PHP versions before 5.0.0 you must use ocicolumnsize() instead. This name still can be used, it was left as alias of oci_field_size() for downwards compatability. This, however, is deprecated and not recommended.

See Also


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