(PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5 <= 5.1.0RC1)
ora_columntype -- Gets the type of an Oracle result column
Description
string 
ora_columntype ( resource cursor, int column )
     Returns the Oracle data type name of the field/column
     column on the cursor
     cursor. Column 0 is the first column. The returned
     type will be one of the following:
     
| "VARCHAR2" | 
| "VARCHAR" | 
| "CHAR" | 
| "NUMBER" | 
| "LONG" | 
| "LONG RAW" | 
| "ROWID" | 
| "DATE" | 
| "CURSOR" |