I can see, that ocicollappend is non-functional, because it is not connected to object. Does this function name exist only in documentation? Is oci_collection_append() not a real function too and can't be called from PHP?
I mean can we safely rename them to OCI-Collection->append and forget about oci_collection_append() and ocicollappend() without breaking something and confusing users since it is impossible to call these functions from PHP?
This is better asked from the extension maintainer... Which for oci8 seems to be:
Stig Bakken, Thies C. Arntzen, Andy Sautins, David Benson and Maxim Maletsky
From the phpcredits() output.
Goba