Omar Ramos Thoughts of a Webmaster

The JDatabaseOracle project's goal is to create an Oracle Driver Class for the Joomla Content Management System. It aims to provide the following methods:

• explain()
• getCollation()
• getTableCreate()
• getTableFields()
• getTableList()
• insertid()
• insertObject()
• updateObject()
  ----
  Result Set Methods:
• loadResult()
• loadResultList()
• loadRow()
• loadRowList()
• loadAssoc()
• loadAssocList()
• loadObject()
• loadObjectList()
  ----
  New Methods:
• setVar()
• bindVars()
• getBindVars()
• getPreparedQuery()

Along with default "ease-of-use" functionality for:

• Default "tolower" option flag for objects for creating object variables that can be accessed via lowercase names (instead of the default Oracle uppercase way)
• Default "returnlobs" option flag for objects and arrays so that LOB values would be returned rather than LOB objects. This is especially useful for LOB fields that contain only paragraphs of text and should be turned off in the case that your LOB fields actually contain considerable amounts of data (such as image or PDF files).