PHP: ora_fetch

Description

bool ora_fetch ( resource cursor )

Retrieves a row of data from the specified cursor.

Returns TRUE (a row was fetched) or FALSE (no more rows, or an error occurred). If an error occurred, details can be retrieved using the ora_error() and ora_errorcode() functions. If there was no error, ora_errorcode() will return 0.

ora_fetch

god at danielhauser dot com
09-Jun-2003 08:36


summary: ;-)



If you are using the ora_do() function, you must use do { ... } while(ora_fetch($curs));

because of ora_do() automaticaly fetches the first row.



If you are using 

$cur=Ora_Open($db_conn);

Ora_Parse($cur,$sql,0);

Ora_Exec($cur);



you must use while(ora_fetch($curs)) { ... }

because the ora_exec doesn't fetch any row.

forever at klub dot chip dot pl
28-Mar-2003 03:36


Not only when there is only one row... the described problem occurs for the FIRST row!!! even if there is 1000 rows the first one will not be displayed so described example with 'do' solve this problem for all cases.

rrosso at zalem dot com
11-Jul-2002 01:36


Little update to abovementioned. $numCols would not work.



        while(ora_fetch($curs1) == 1){                          // WHILE THERE IS A ROW

                for($i=0;$i<ora_numcols($curs1);$i++){          // PARSE THROUGH THE COLUMNS

                printf("%s", ora_getcolumn($curs1,$i));         //  PRINT THE RESULTS

                }

        }

21-Feb-2002 12:01


Obviously Daniel has no idea what he is talking about!  ora_fetch() is a wonderful tool for extracting a row from the data base. Here is how:



  while(ora_fetch($cursor) == 1){     // WHILE THERE IS A ROW 

     for($i=0;$i<$numCols;$i++){     // PARSE THROUGH THE COLUMNS

       echo ora_getcolumn($cursor,$i);      //  PRINT THE RESULTS

     }

   }                                    // NEXT ROW



There are many ways to modify the above code to get the desired result, but this is a basic way to parse through all of the result set.

dmuth at ot dot com
14-Jan-2000 03:54


Try using ora_fetch_into($cursor, &$results) to get the row into an array.  Yes, you need the "&" sign before the name of the variable to fetch into so that it is passed by reference and can be modified in the function.  





You should also be aware that when calling this function multiple times (like within a loop) that the array is NOT initialized, which could lead to some "ghosting" of data.  You need to initialize the array yourself, prefarably with the array() function.