How to call a stored procedure?

Question

I have this procedure in my oracle DB,
insert_orders_main ( v_sapak in number)
how can I call it from PHP ? if someone can give me a simple example... thanks!

Answer 1

You can call it with oci_parse, and just pass a "BEGIN ... END;" command like you'd run in SQL*Plus. Here is an example:
PHP Script:
<?php
     $conn = oci_connect('forums','forums','xe');
     if(!$conn) {
          echo 'Could not connect!';
          exit;
     $sql = 'begin my_proc(42); end;';
     $stmt = oci_parse($conn, $sql);
     if(!$stmt) {
          echo 'Could not parse query.';
          exit;
     $result = oci_execute($stmt, OCI_DEFAULT);
     if(!$result) {
          echo 'Could not execute query.';
          exit;
     echo "Query ran successfully.\n";
     oci_commit($conn);
     echo "Committed changes.\n";
     oci_close($conn);
?>And here is the corresponding SQL*Plus session:
SQL> create table my_table
  2  ( data varchar2(32) not null );
Table created.
SQL> create procedure my_proc(v_x in number)
  2  is
  3  begin
  4    insert into my_table values ('hi there!  you entered (' || v_x || ')');
  5  end;
  6  /
Procedure created.
SQL> select * from my_table;
no rows selected
SQL> -- calling php script ... done. <-----
SQL>
SQL> select * from my_table;
DATA
hi there!  you entered (42)
SQL> -- Yay!You'll need to make sure you install the OCI8 library when you install PHP. If you need to pass in arguments to the procedure dynamically, you can use the oci_bind_by_name() function. For more detail, see the documentation for the OCI8 library in the PHP reference manual online:
OCI8 Functions
http://us.php.net/manual/en/ref.oci8.php
Example using oci_bind_by_name() (see #4):
http://us.php.net/manual/en/oci8.examples.php
Kind regards,
Christopher L. Simons