Hebat-Allah Farag wrote: > I am stick since 2 days at the same point, I am using 10g, PHP my problem > now is how to fecth the X, Y , z coordinates from the geometry column to > view it on my web page, i don't understand the (SDO_ORDINATES), what is its > type & how i can deal with it. my simple code is: > $conn=oci_connect('User','pass','//localhost/x') > $sqlCol="SELECT c.GEOMETRY.SDO_ORDINATES from SSS c WHERE c.CODE = '80A' "; > $resultCol=oci_parse($conn,$sqlCol); > $excuteResCol=oci_execute($resultCol); > $resultRecordsCol=oci_fetch_array($resultCol); > > I got an error on the last line as (ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes: > expected CHAR got ARRAY ) > i don't know how to deal with this resultset. Since PHP's OCI8 deals with simple types (or arrays of simple types), you could create a mapping function in PL/SQL. There is a related example under the heading "Using PL/SQL Types in PHP" on page 141 of the current (1.4) version of http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/php/pdf/underground-php-oracle-manual.pdf Also see the use of SDO_UTIL.GETVERTICES in http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=1448667� Chris -- Christopher Jones, Oracle Email: christopher.jones@xxxxxxxxxx Tel: +1 650 506 8630 Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/opal/ Free PHP Book: http://tinyurl.com/f8jad -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php