how to return "abstract" datatypes (LOBS) to the script.

hi, i've just started working on the oci8.c (which stig started last year)... my 1st goal will be some kind of LOB handling. oracle returns LOB-Locators (which are internal oracle structures and not strings like ROWID). to get the acutal value you need to pass that LOB-Locator to some LOB-reading functions and so on. oracle supplies functions to allocate/deallocate those lobs. my question is now: how do i return a LOB-Locator to the script. we only have a "limited" amount of datatypes that php can handle.... the scrtipt could look like: ..... do some "select LOB from table" here $locator = ocigetcolumn($cursor,"LOB"); $data = ocireadlob($connection,$locator,-1); what would/should gettype($locator) return - better - what should it be??? any suggestions? tc -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net