Doug McMaster wrote:
Regardless of how I set the NLS_DATE_FORMAT parameter, when I do a select
statement DATE fields are returned in the Oracle default DD-MON-RR format.
I can successfully set NLS_DATE_FORMAT using either an environment variable
and restarting apache or by using ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT =
'DD-MM- HH24:MI:SS' (I would prefer to use this method).
I can verify that the NLS_DATE_FORMAT is set to my desired format both before
and after my select statement by running the query SELECT * FROM
NLS_SESSION_PARAMETERS WHERE PARAMETER='NLS_DATE_FORMAT' in my script.
This problem occurs with both PEAR DB, and with ADODB oci8 drivers. However
if I use the ADODB oracle drivers, which use the older ora functions instead
of the oci functions, ALTER SESSION works and I am able to retrieve dates in
the format I set. Unfortunately, the software I'm working on uses PEAR
DB_DataObject, and the PEAR DB Oracle driver uses the oci calls.
Version info:
Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production
PHP 4.3.4
Apache 1.3.29
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions on why I'm seeing this problem?
Thanks,
Doug
In ADOdb, make sure to set the format before connecting:
$db = ADONewConnection(oci8);
// $db-debug = true;
// Date format is set before connecting.
$db-NLS_DATE_FORMAT = '-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS';
if ([EMAIL PROTECTED]Connect(false, scott, tiger))
error('Connect', $db-ErrorMsg());
In OCI8, see the scipt below.
In PEAR, . . . it's been a while since I used dates in PEAR.
Chris
--
?php
$conn = OCILogon(scott, tiger);
if (!$conn) { echo Error connecting; die; }
query($conn, select * from nls_session_parameters where
parameter='NLS_DATE_FORMAT');
query($conn, select sysdate from dual);
alterdate($conn);
query($conn, select * from nls_session_parameters where
parameter='NLS_DATE_FORMAT');
query($conn, select sysdate from dual);
exit;
function query($conn, $query)
{
$stid = OCIParse($conn, $query);
if (!$stid) { echo Error parsing; die; }
$r = OCIExecute($stid, OCI_DEFAULT);
if (!$r) { echo Error executing; die; }
print 'table border=1';
while ($succ = OCIFetchInto($stid, $row, OCI_RETURN_NULLS)) {
print 'tr';
foreach ($row as $item) {
print 'td'.($item?htmlentities($item):'nbsp;').'/td';
}
print '/tr';
}
print '/table';
}
function alterdate($conn)
{
$cmd = alter session set nls_date_format = '-MON-DD HH:MI';
$stid = OCIParse($conn, $cmd);
if (!$stid) { echo Error parsing; die; }
$r = ociexecute($stid, OCI_DEFAULT);
if (!$r) { echo Error executing; die; }
}
?
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