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OCI8
Predefined Constants

Predefined Constants

The constants below are defined by this extension, and will only be available when the extension has either been compiled into PHP or dynamically loaded at runtime.

**OCI8 Function and Method Modes**
Constant	Description
`OCI_ASSOC`	Used with oci_fetch_all() and oci_fetch_array() to get results as an associative array.
`OCI_BOTH`	Used with oci_fetch_all() and oci_fetch_array() to get results as an array with both associative and number indices.
`OCI_COMMIT_ON_SUCCESS`	Statement execution mode for oci_execute() call. Automatically commit changes when the statement has succeeded.
`OCI_CRED_EXT`	Used with oci_connect() for using Oracles' External or OS authentication.
`OCI_DEFAULT`	See `OCI_NO_AUTO_COMMIT`.
`OCI_DESCRIBE_ONLY`	Statement execution mode for oci_execute(). Use this mode if you want meta data such as the column names but don't want to fetch rows from the query.
`OCI_EXACT_FETCH`	Obsolete. Statement fetch mode. Used when the application knows in advance exactly how many rows it will be fetching. This mode turns prefetching off for Oracle release 8 or later mode. The cursor is canceled after the desired rows are fetched which may result in reduced server-side resource usage.
`OCI_FETCHSTATEMENT_BY_COLUMN`	Default mode of oci_fetch_all().
`OCI_FETCHSTATEMENT_BY_ROW`	Alternative mode of oci_fetch_all().
`OCI_LOB_BUFFER_FREE`	Used with OCILob::flush to free buffers used.
`OCI_NO_AUTO_COMMIT`	Statement execution mode for oci_execute(). The transaction is not automatically committed when using this mode. For readability in new code, use this value instead of the older, equivalent `OCI_DEFAULT` constant.
`OCI_NUM`	Used with oci_fetch_all() and oci_fetch_array() to get results as an enumerated array.
`OCI_RETURN_LOBS`	Used with oci_fetch_array() to get the data value of the LOB instead of the descriptor.
`OCI_RETURN_NULLS`	Used with oci_fetch_array() to get empty array elements if the row items value is `null`.
`OCI_SEEK_CUR`	Used with OCILob::seek to set the seek position.
`OCI_SEEK_END`	Used with OCILob::seek to set the seek position.
`OCI_SEEK_SET`	Used with OCILob::seek to set the seek position.
`OCI_SYSDATE`	Obsolete.
`OCI_SYSDBA`	Used with oci_connect() to connect with the SYSDBA privilege. The `php.ini` setting oci8.privileged_connect should be enabled to use this.
`OCI_SYSOPER`	Used with oci_connect() to connect with the SYSOPER privilege. The `php.ini` setting oci8.privileged_connect should be enabled to use this.
`OCI_TEMP_BLOB`	Used with OCILob::writeTemporary to indicate that a temporary BLOB should be created.
`OCI_TEMP_CLOB`	Used with OCILob::writeTemporary to indicate that a temporary CLOB should be created.

**OCI8 Bind and Define Types**
Constant	Description
`OCI_B_BFILE`	Used with oci_bind_by_name() when binding BFILEs.
`OCI_B_BIN`	Used with oci_bind_by_name() to bind RAW values.
`OCI_B_BLOB`	Used with oci_bind_by_name() when binding BLOBs.
`OCI_B_BOL`	Used with oci_bind_by_name() to bind a PL/SQL BOOLEAN variable.
`OCI_B_CFILEE`	Used with oci_bind_by_name() when binding CFILEs.
`OCI_B_CLOB`	Used with oci_bind_by_name() when binding CLOBs.
`OCI_B_CURSOR`	Used with oci_bind_by_name() when binding cursors, previously allocated with oci_new_descriptor().
`OCI_B_INT`	Used with oci_bind_array_by_name() to bind arrays of INTEGER.
`OCI_B_NTY`	Used with oci_bind_by_name() when binding named data types.
`OCI_B_NUM`	Used with oci_bind_array_by_name() to bind arrays of NUMBER.
`OCI_B_ROWID`	Used with oci_bind_by_name() when binding ROWIDs.
`SQLT_AFC`	Used with oci_bind_array_by_name() to bind arrays of CHAR.
`SQLT_AVC`	Used with oci_bind_array_by_name() to bind arrays of VARCHAR2.
`SQLT_BDOUBLE`	Not supported.
`SQLT_BFILEE`	The same as `OCI_B_BFILE`.
`SQLT_BFLOAT`	Not supported.
`SQLT_BIN`	The same as `OCI_B_BIN`.
`SQLT_BLOB`	The same as `OCI_B_BLOB`.
`SQLT_BOL`	The same as `OCI_B_BOL`.
`SQLT_CFILEE`	The same as `OCI_B_CFILEE`.
`SQLT_CHR`	Used with oci_bind_array_by_name() to bind arrays of VARCHAR2. Also used with oci_bind_by_name().
`SQLT_CLOB`	The same as `OCI_B_CLOB`.
`SQLT_FLT`	Used with oci_bind_array_by_name() to bind arrays of FLOAT.
`SQLT_INT`	The same as `OCI_B_INT`.
`SQLT_LBI`	Used with oci_bind_by_name() to bind LONG RAW values.
`SQLT_LNG`	Used with oci_bind_by_name() to bind LONG values.
`SQLT_LVC`	Used with oci_bind_array_by_name() to bind arrays of LONG VARCHAR.
`SQLT_NTY`	The same as `OCI_B_NTY`.
`SQLT_NUM`	The same as `OCI_B_NUM`.
`SQLT_ODT`	Used with oci_bind_array_by_name() to bind arrays of LONG.
`SQLT_RDD`	The same as `OCI_B_ROWID`.
`SQLT_RSET`	The same as `OCI_B_CURSOR`.
`SQLT_STR`	Used with oci_bind_array_by_name() to bind arrays of STRING.
`SQLT_UIN`	Not supported.
`SQLT_VCS`	Used with oci_bind_array_by_name() to bind arrays of VARCHAR.

**OCI8 Descriptor Types**
Constant	Description
`OCI_DTYPE_FILE`	This flag tells oci_new_descriptor() to initialize a new FILE descriptor.
`OCI_DTYPE_LOB`	This flag tells oci_new_descriptor() to initialize a new LOB descriptor.
`OCI_DTYPE_ROWID`	This flag tells oci_new_descriptor() to initialize a new ROWID descriptor.
`OCI_D_FILE`	The same as `OCI_DTYPE_FILE`.
`OCI_D_LOB`	The same as `OCI_DTYPE_LOB`.
`OCI_D_ROWID`	The same as `OCI_DTYPE_ROWID`.

OCI8 Transparent Application Failover (TAF) Constants

Constants	Description
`OCI_FO_ABORT` (int)	Failover was unsuccessful and there is no option of retrying.
`OCI_FO_BEGIN` (int)	Failover has detected a lost connection and failover is starting.
`OCI_FO_END` (int)	Failover completed successfully.
`OCI_FO_ERROR` (int)	Failover was unsuccessful but it gives the application the opportunity to handle the error and return `OCI_FO_RETRY` to retry failover.
`OCI_FO_NONE` (int)	The user has not requested a failover type.
`OCI_FO_REAUTH` (int)	An Oracle user has been re-authenticated.
`OCI_FO_RETRY` (int)	The failover should be attempted again by Oracle. In case of an error while failing over to a new connection, TAF is able to retry the failover. Typically, the application code should sleep for a while before returning `OCI_FO_RETRY`.
`OCI_FO_SELECT` (int)	The user has requested SELECT failover as well. It allows users with open cursors to continue fetching from them after failure.
`OCI_FO_SESSION` (int)	The user has requested only session failover. For example, if a user's connection is lost, then a new session is automatically created for the user on the backup. This type of failover does not attempt to recover SELECTs.
`OCI_FO_TXNAL` (int)	The user has requested a transaction failover.