Try the following script and see that after attempting to fetch the row after the
last in the result set, OCINumCols() no longer returns the right value.
This problem did not exist in PHP 4.0.0 .

Also notice the erroneous warning that is outputted.

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<b>Warning</b>:  failed to rollback outstanding transactions!: ORA-24324: servic
e handle not initialized                                                        
 in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br>

<?
 if(!function_exists("OCINLogon"))
 {
  $this->last_error="Oracle OCI API support is not available in this PHP configuration";
  return(0);
 }
 putenv("ORACLE_HOME=/home/oracle/u01");
 putenv("ORACLE_SID=dboracle");
 if(($connection=OCINLogon("SYS","change_on_install","dboracle")))
 {
  if(($cursor=OCINewCursor($connection)))
  {
   if(($statement=OCIParse($connection,"SELECT * FROM DUAL")))
   {
    if(($result=OCIExecute($statement,OCI_COMMIT_ON_SUCCESS)))
    {
     echo OCINumCols($statement),"\n";
     OCIFetch($statement);
     OCIFetch($statement);
     echo OCINumCols($statement),"\n";
     OCIFreeCursor($statement);
    }
    else
     echo "Could not execute query\n";
   }
   else
    echo "Could not parse query\n";
   OCIFreeCursor($cursor);
  }
  else
   echo "Could not create new query cursor\n";
  OCILogOff($connection);
 }
 else
  echo "Could not connect to Oracle server\n";
?>