Problem with OCIPLOGON

Hello, I've created a web site using apache 1.3.12 and php 4. I also have Oracle 8, and compiled php to support oracle. All is working fine, but I've got a problem with OCIPlogon. My web site has 2 frames. One on the left and one on the right. First I asked a login, password, and database on the left frame with HTML FORMS. Then I load a new page and read these parameters. I then would like to create a connexion with OCIPLogon and then submit only the connexion created by ociplogon to each pages that I load after that. The problem is that when I print the result of an ociPlogon call, I've got: Resource id #3 What does it mean? When I look in the PHP manual, the OCIPLogon function returns an "int", and not a "string" (Resource id #3) If someone can explain me what mean "Resource id #3", I would be very pleased. Thanks Guillaume Duwelz-Rebert