I've used Oracle for years, and am not aware of Oracle having case sensitive column 
names.


>>>>>"Torsten Lange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>>>>> But when using queries on the USER_... data dictionary, Oracle
>>>>>> delivers always big letters, which is for chemical elements (NA
>>>>>> vs. Na) or location names (ALICE SPRINGS vs.  Alice Springs) and
>>>>>> location codes often uncomfortable to read.
>>
>>> Then I see only one way: create a mapping array to map your field names to
>>> what you want them to be *really* called.
>>> 
>>> $mapping = array('FIELD1' => 'My real field name', 'FIELD2' => 'My second
>>> field name');
>>> 
>>> Then you get the value this way:
>>> 
>>> $realName = $mapping[$fieldNameFromDB];
>>
>>A mapping is the best way.  It separates the internal schema structure
>>(i.e column names as created by Oracle) from the display values (i.e.
>>the column names you want to display).
>>
>>But it is possible to get PHP to return case sensitive column names from
>>Oracle, see below.
>>
>>Chris
>>
>>-----
>>
>>     <?php
>>
>>     // Example using case sensitive column names in Oracle.
>>     //
>>     // Table P1 was created in SQL*Plus using:
>>     //
>>     //    create table p1 ("MyCol" number);
>>     //    insert into p1 values (1234);
>>     //    commit;
>>     //
>>     // The output of this PHP script is:
>>     //
>>     //   array(1) {
>>     //     ["MyCol"]=>
>>     //     string(4) "1234"
>>     //   }
>>
>>     $conn = OCILogon("scott", "tiger", "MYDB");
>>
>>     $query = 'select * from p1';
>>
>>     $stid = OCIParse($conn, $query);
>>     OCIExecute($stid);
>>     OCIFetchInto($stid, $row, OCI_ASSOC);
>>     echo "<pre>"; var_dump($row); echo "</pre>";
>>
>>     OCILogoff($conn);
>>
>>     ?>
>>
>>-- 
>>Christopher Jones, Oracle Corporation, Australia.


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