# oci_new_connect

(PHP 5, PECL oci8:1.1-1.2.4)

oci_new_connect — Establishes a new connection to the Oracle server

### Description

resource oci_new_connect ( string `$username` , string `$password` [, string `$db` [, string `$charset` [, int `$session_mode` ]]] )

Establishes a new connection to an Oracle server and logs on.

Unlike oci_connect() and oci_pconnect(), oci_new_connect() does not cache connections and will always return a brand-new freshly opened connection handle. This is useful if your application needs transactional isolation between two sets of queries.

### Parameters

`username`

  The Oracle user name.

`password`

  The password for `username` .

`db`

  This optional parameter can either contain the name of the local Oracle instance or the name of the entry in tnsnames.ora.

  If the not specified, PHP uses environment variables ORACLE_SID and TWO_TASK to determine the name of local Oracle instance and location of tnsnames.ora accordingly.

`charset`

  Using Oracle server version 9.2 and greater, you can indicate `charset` parameter, which will be used in the new connection. If you're using Oracle server < 9.2, this parameter will be ignored and NLS_LANG environment variable will be used instead.

`session_mode`

  This parameter is available since version 1.1 and accepts the following values: `OCI_DEFAULT`, `OCI_SYSOPER` and `OCI_SYSDBA`. If either `OCI_SYSOPER` or `OCI_SYSDBA` were specified, this function will try to establish privileged connection using external credentials. Privileged connections are disabled by default. To enable them you need to set oci8.privileged_connect to On.

### Return Values

Returns a connection identifier or `FALSE` on error.

### Examples

The following demonstrates how you can separate connections.

Example#1 oci_new_connect() example

`<?php
echo "<html><pre>";
$db = "";
$c1 = oci_connect("scott", "tiger", $db);
$c2 = oci_new_connect("scott", "tiger", $db);
function create_table($conn)
{
$stmt = oci_parse($conn, "create table scott.hallo (test
varchar2(64))");
oci_execute($stmt);
echo $conn . " created table\n\n";
}
function drop_table($conn)
{
$stmt = oci_parse($conn, "drop table scott.hallo");
oci_execute($stmt);
echo $conn . " dropped table\n\n";
}
function insert_data($conn)
{
$stmt = oci_parse($conn, "insert into scott.hallo
values('$conn' || ' ' || to_char(sysdate,'DD-MON-YY HH24:MI:SS'))");
oci_execute($stmt, OCI_DEFAULT);
echo $conn . " inserted hallo\n\n";
}
function delete_data($conn)
{
$stmt = oci_parse($conn, "delete from scott.hallo");
oci_execute($stmt, OCI_DEFAULT);
echo $conn . " deleted hallo\n\n";
}
function commit($conn)
{
oci_commit($conn);
echo $conn . " committed\n\n";
}
function rollback($conn)
{
oci_rollback($conn);
echo $conn . " rollback\n\n";
}
function select_data($conn)
{
$stmt = oci_parse($conn, "select * from scott.hallo");
oci_execute($stmt, OCI_DEFAULT);
echo $conn . "----selecting\n\n";
while (oci_fetch($stmt)) {
echo $conn . " <" . oci_result($stmt, "TEST") . ">\n\n";
}
echo $conn . "----done\n\n";
}
create_table($c1);
insert_data($c1);
select_data($c1);
select_data($c2);
rollback($c1);
select_data($c1);
select_data($c2);
insert_data($c2);
commit($c2);
select_data($c1);
delete_data($c1);
select_data($c1);
select_data($c2);
commit($c1);
select_data($c1);
select_data($c2);
drop_table($c1);
echo "</pre></html>";
?>`

### Notes

> Note: If you're using PHP with Oracle Instant Client, you can use easy connect naming method described here: » http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B12037_01/network.101/b10775/naming.htm#i498306. Basically this means you can specify "//db_host[:port]/database_name" as database name. But if you want to use the old way of naming you must set either `ORACLE_HOME` or `TNS_ADMIN`.

> Note: In PHP versions before 5.0.0 you must use ocinlogon() instead. This name still can be used, it was left as alias of oci_new_connect() for downwards compatability. This, however, is deprecated and not recommended.

### See Also

- oci_connect()
- oci_pconnect()