ora_columntype
    (PHP 3, PHP 4 )
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" |