how do I print the result of a query to the screen.

[orfiyus]

I am trying to print the result of the query to the screen. For example Im looking to count the number of times REC appears in my db which is 3 times. So I could say select count(*).... which would output the number 3. When I put this into my code I only get 1. I get 1 no matter what happens. I looked up ociexecute and its 1 for success or 0 for fail. How would I accomplish this?Every example I see is too confusing.

//$db_conn = <the database connection info. >
$query = "select count(*) from test_table";
$parsed = ociparse($db_conn, $query);
$succ = ociexecute($parsed);

[code green]

Don't despair. I can't see anything wrong with this so far.
You just haven't gone far enough.

The value returned by ociparse is a resource identifier.
ociexecute($par sed) executes the statement.
Note the resource identifier is passed in the function
Now you need to unravel the result.
You will need

oci_fetch_array ($parsed) 
//or 
oci_fetch_assoc ($parsed).

Your query will only return a count which should be the first array element

$query = "select count(*) from test_table";

So to see this figure use
[PHP]$result = oci_fetch_array ($parsed);
$count = $result[0];
echo 'Count '.$count;[/PHP]I think this last bit is right. Apologies if not.

[orfiyus]

yo code green

Thanks alot man this helped me out alot. The only reason I needed to see the output on the screen was for debugging purposes. This really helped Ive been trying to get this output for at least 2 days. I have been looking all over google and I never found a clear answer. Anyway thanks for taking the time to look at this for me.

Peace

[code green]

No problem. I have never used the oci functions and I was curious to know whether they were similar to mysql,mssql and ODBC functions