can't read oracle lob

Hello there, Last time I got a very useful answer from the mailing list ,so I hope there's someone who can help me. I have a problem with Oracle large objects. I can insert new rows with lobs, but whet I want to read (and display) them, I can't do it. I tried the following code: $stmt = OCIParse($conn,"select THE_LOB from lobtst where id=11"); OCIExecute($stmt); ocifetchinto($stmt,&$tt,OCI_ASSOCC); echo $tt["THE_LOB"]->load(); But I got the following error message: Fatal error: Member function used on a non-object in /usr/local/httpd.........../readlob.php3 on line 48 Does anyone have any idea. Thanks in advance, Máté Lajtos