Broken bind in php?

Hi, We are trying to help a client with a migration of some code from perl to php. Unfortunately, they are having the following problem. We have made sure that the oracle environment is set identically from an NLS standpoint on the client and the server. The perl code (also below) works well and binds fine. Any ideas from the list? Thanks in advance, Paul This is the function in question. I can hard code the values in OCIParse to specific values rather than the placeholder ":mid". The two validMessage and validJobNum functions ensure that the two variables only are digits and nothing else. If they weren't, the OCIExecute that is being complained about whould never be reached. --- function messageDelete($dbh,$jobnum,$messageIDs,$listid) { if(!validJobNum($jobnum)) return(0); $account=ereg_replace("'","''",$jobnum); if(!$stmt=OCIParse($dbh,"delete from mstats where job_num=$jobnum and message_id=:mid")) return(0); OCIBindByName($stmt,":mid",&$mid); foreach ($messageIDs as $mid) { print "$jobnum,$mid"; if(validMessageId($mid)) OCIExecute($stmt); } return(messageRenumber($dbh,$jobnum,$listid)); } --- This is what is printed. 10465,42OCIStmtExecute: ORA-01460 unimplemented or unreasonable conversion requested in "messageOp.inc" on line 24 the 10465,42 is a result of the printing to make sure there isn't any giberish falling through. this is the equivalent of it in perl --- use DBI; require "/nc/include/ncglobal-2.ph"; $dbh=open_connection("bert"); $dbh->{RaiseError} = 1; # save having to check each method call $jobnum=10465; $sth = $dbh->prepare("delete from mstats where job_num=$jobnum and message_id=?"); $x=42; $sth->execute($x); --- oracle client on the machine is 8.0.5 and the server is running 8.1.5 (or is that .6) the environment includes NLS_LANG=american_america.us7ascii all columns in the table are of type number, message_id can hold 10 digits, though i'm inserting a 2 digit number.