<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... :

> the OCIQuery that maxim proposed has the advantage of being pretty
> high-level, making it much easier for mysql programmers to get a grip at
> oracle, but then again i think that every self-respecting php developer
> would write a function/method that does this for him ;-). from an
> extension point of view i think we shouldn't give up the granularity
> IMHO... but if we go for it, maybe we can change the result type (in
> accordance to the shift of focus in php5) to be a php object that
> contains the statement handle, row+column count,..etc. fields?

Of course everything can be wrapped and modularized. But, I think
OCIQuery could be very nice addition in terms of language usability. It
would then really make it clear why using OCIParse/Execute.

> while we are at it and regarding data types: shall we change the way
> lobs are handled? perhaps a switch between object/content return types.
> i cannot quite see the advantage of having the lobs loaded on demand,
> rather than 'unpacking' them as soon as a result is fetched.

I was thinking of also work out a way to start supporting Boolean types.
Studying the sources now. This is in regards of Bug #19687:

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=19687

> btw, connection pooling, which thies mentioned, would be an absolute +.
> 
> perhaps we should wrap around more oci functions, specially the type
> conversion ones, and offer these as part of the extension.

Can we have an internal OCI/PHP and viceversa datatype converter? This
would make things much easier.

-- 
Maxim Maletsky
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