Just a note regarding the size of Oracle NUMBERS will always return 22 as their "size".
This seems to be an Oracle feature. The rest of the documentation is in bug5156.
(PHP 5, PHP 7, PECL OCI8 >= 1.1.0)
oci_field_size — Returns field's size
statement
A valid OCI statement identifier.
field
Can be the field's index (1-based) or name.
Returns the size of a field
in bytes, or FALSE
on
errors.
Example #1 oci_field_size() example
<?php
// Create the table with:
// CREATE TABLE mytab (number_col NUMBER, varchar2_col varchar2(1),
// clob_col CLOB, date_col DATE);
$conn = oci_connect("hr", "hrpwd", "localhost/XE");
if (!$conn) {
$m = oci_error();
trigger_error(htmlentities($m['message']), E_USER_ERROR);
}
$stid = oci_parse($conn, "SELECT * FROM mytab");
oci_execute($stid, OCI_DESCRIBE_ONLY); // Use OCI_DESCRIBE_ONLY if not fetching rows
echo "<table border=\"1\">\n";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<th>Name</th>";
echo "<th>Type</th>";
echo "<th>Length</th>";
echo "</tr>\n";
$ncols = oci_num_fields($stid);
for ($i = 1; $i <= $ncols; $i++) {
$column_name = oci_field_name($stid, $i);
$column_type = oci_field_type($stid, $i);
$column_size = oci_field_size($stid, $i);
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>$column_name</td>";
echo "<td>$column_type</td>";
echo "<td>$column_size</td>";
echo "</tr>\n";
}
echo "</table>\n";
// Outputs:
// Name Type Length
// NUMBER_COL NUMBER 22
// VARCHAR2_COL VARCHAR2 1
// CLOB_COL CLOB 4000
// DATE_COL DATE 7
oci_free_statement($stid);
oci_close($conn);
?>
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.
Just a note regarding the size of Oracle NUMBERS will always return 22 as their "size".
This seems to be an Oracle feature. The rest of the documentation is in bug5156.