Question

I’m having a probem executing a Oracle stored procedure through PHP. I’m getting a successful return value, but the procedure is not updating any rows.

Here’s the procedure definition.

CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE trans_data AS 
  PROCEDURE UPDATE_TRANS_BY_NAME(
    var_FName IN TRANSACTION.FIRST_NAME%type,
    var_LName IN TRANSACTION.LAST_NAME%type,
    var_DOB IN TRANSACTION.DOB%type,
    var_PolNum IN TRANSACTION.POLICY_NUMBER%type,
    var_TransStatus IN TRANSACTION.TRANS_STATUS%type,
    var_Comp IN TRANSACTION.COMPANY%type,
    var_LineOfBusiness IN TRANSACTION.LINE_OF_BUSINESS%type,
    var_PlanCode IN TRANSACTION.PLAN_CODE%type,
    var_AppDate IN TRANSACTION.APP_DATE%type,
    var_IssueDate IN TRANSACTION.ISSUE_DATE%type,
    var_FaceAmt IN TRANSACTION.FACE_AMT%type,
    var_PolicyStatus IN TRANSACTION.POLICY_STATUS%type,
    var_PaidAmt IN TRANSACTION.PAID_AMT%type,
    var_Return OUT VARCHAR2
  );  
END trans_data;

CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY trans_data AS 
  PROCEDURE UPDATE_TRANS_BY_NAME(
    var_FName IN TRANSACTION.FIRST_NAME%type,
    var_LName IN TRANSACTION.LAST_NAME%type,
    var_DOB IN TRANSACTION.DOB%type,
    var_PolNum IN TRANSACTION.POLICY_NUMBER%type,
    var_TransStatus IN TRANSACTION.TRANS_STATUS%type,
    var_Comp IN TRANSACTION.COMPANY%type,
    var_LineOfBusiness IN TRANSACTION.LINE_OF_BUSINESS%type,
    var_PlanCode IN TRANSACTION.PLAN_CODE%type,
    var_AppDate IN TRANSACTION.APP_DATE%type,
    var_IssueDate IN TRANSACTION.ISSUE_DATE%type,
    var_FaceAmt IN TRANSACTION.FACE_AMT%type,
    var_PolicyStatus IN TRANSACTION.POLICY_STATUS%type,
    var_PaidAmt IN TRANSACTION.PAID_AMT%type,
    var_Return OUT VARCHAR2)
  IS
  BEGIN
    UPDATE TRANSACTION
    SET
      POLICY_NUMBER = var_PolNum,
      TRANS_STATUS = var_TransStatus,
      COMPANY = var_Comp,
      LINE_OF_BUSINESS = var_LineOfBusiness,
      PLAN_CODE = var_PlanCode,
      APP_DATE = var_AppDate,
      ISSUE_DATE = var_IssueDate,
      FACE_AMT = var_FaceAmt,
      POLICY_STATUS = var_PolicyStatus,
      PAID_AMT = var_PaidAmt
    WHERE FIRST_NAME = var_FName
      AND LAST_NAME = var_LName
      AND DOB = var_DOB
      AND TRANS_STATUS = 'R'
      AND REASON_FOR_REVIEW = 'No Policy Match';
      commit;
      var_Return := 'PASS';
    EXCEPTION
    WHEN OTHERS THEN
      var_Return := 'FAIL';
  END UPDATE_TRANS_BY_NAME;
END trans_data;

The row updates when I remove line “AND DOB = var_DOB” in the procedure. I’ve tried changing the variable definition to a VARCHAR and using “AND DOB = to_date(var_DOB, ‘DD-MON-YY’)” with no success. I also tried “AND TRUNC(DOB = var_DOB)”, but it also did not work.

Here is the PHP code. I have already verified all of the parameters being passed have values and are formatted correctly for the database datatypes. I stripped out the code that does a previous query that populates some of the bound variables to cut out what is working.

function matchWSPolicy($policy, $trans, $status, $amount){

    include("../includes/DBConn.php");


    if ($Policy == ""){
        $message = 'Policy number does not match!';
        return $message;
    }

    $stmt = OCI_Parse($c,"begin ucs.trans_data.UPDATE_TRANS_BY_NAME(:var_FName, :var_LName, :var_DOB, :var_PolNum, 
        :var_TransStatus, :var_Comp, :var_LineOfBusiness, :var_PlanCode, :var_AppDate, :var_IssueDate, :var_FaceAmt, 
        :var_PolicyStatus, :var_PaidAmt, :var_Return); end;"); 
    OCI_BIND_BY_NAME($stmt,":var_FName",$FName);
    OCI_BIND_BY_NAME($stmt,":var_LName",$LName);
    OCI_BIND_BY_NAME($stmt,":var_DOB",$DOB);
    }
    else {
        $message = 'Policy matched, but a valid SSN or (first name, last name, date of birth) was not returned from the WS database';
}   

    OCI_Bind_By_Name($stmt,":var_PolNum",$Policy);
    OCI_Bind_By_Name($stmt,":var_TransStatus",$status); 
    OCI_Bind_By_Name($stmt,":var_Comp",$ComCode); 
    OCI_Bind_By_Name($stmt,":var_LineOfBusiness",$LineOfBusiness); 
    OCI_Bind_By_Name($stmt,":var_PlanCode",$Plan); 
    OCI_Bind_By_Name($stmt,":var_AppDate",$AppDate); 
    OCI_Bind_By_Name($stmt,":var_IssueDate",$IssueDate); 
    OCI_Bind_By_Name($stmt,":var_FaceAmt",$FaceAmount); 
    OCI_Bind_By_Name($stmt,":var_PolicyStatus",$PolStatus); 
    OCI_Bind_By_Name($stmt,":var_PaidAmt",$amount); 
    OCI_Bind_By_Name($stmt,":var_Return",$return, 4); 

    if ($message == ''){
        oci_execute($stmt);
        oci_commit($c);
    }
    else{
        $message = 'Record not successfully updated.';
    }
    return $message;
}

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Answer 1

I know it has been over a year, but I had to come back to this project. The answer was having to convert both values to dates even though the database value was already a date.

AND to_date(DOB, 'DD-MON-YY') = to_date(var_DOB, 'DD-MON-YY')