Hm. Assuming that I don't have the option of rewriting the function to a
procedure, is there another way to go?
At 10:54 PM 3/7/01 +0100, Matthias Kopolt wrote:
>Oracle Divides Function in several Groups
>
>DML means Data-Manipulating function;
>
>(in your funciton is a update or insert)
>
>to use a function in a query it needs to be "pure" only selects and
>arithmetics
>
>you can rewrite this function to a procedure and return your value as an out
>parameter
>
> $stmt = ociparse($dbh,"BEGIN p_foo_procedure('param_in',:1);END;" );
> OCIBindByName ($stmt,":1",&$outparam,40);
> ociexecute ($stmt);
> OCIfreestatement($stmt);
>
>40 is the buffer in chars/bytes (addjust if needed)
>
>the procedure needs to declare the second argument as in and can declare the
>second one as "out" or "in out"
>
>mk
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