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Returns the number of result columns in a statement
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oci_num_fields

(PHP 5, PECL OCI8 >= 1.1.0)

oci_num_fieldsReturns the number of result columns in a statement

Description

int oci_num_fields ( resource $statement )

Gets the number of columns in the given statement.

Parameters

statement

A valid OCI statement identifier.

Return Values

Returns the number of columns as an integer, or FALSE on errors.

Examples

Example #1 oci_num_fields() example

<?php
$conn 
oci_connect("scott""tiger");
$stmt oci_parse($conn"select * from emp");

oci_execute($stmt);

while (
oci_fetch($stmt)) {
    echo 
"\n";
    
$ncols oci_num_fields($stmt);
    for (
$i 1$i <= $ncols$i++) {
        
$column_name  oci_field_name($stmt$i);
        
$column_value oci_result($stmt$i);
        echo 
$column_name ': ' $column_value "\n";
    }
    echo 
"\n";
}

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

Notes

Note:

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


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