Please help...

I'm attempting to call an oracle function which takes a date as one of it's input parameters... I do this...
$cursor = $dbh->prepare("BEGIN create_person( ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, 
+?, ? ); END;");
$cursor->bind_param(1, $title);
$cursor->bind_param(2, $name);
$cursor->bind_param(3, $surname);
$cursor->bind_param(4, $sex);
$cursor->bind_param(5, $date);
$cursor->bind_param(6, $origin);
$cursor->bind_param(7, $user);
$cursor->bind_param_inout(8, \$person, 10);
$cursor->bind_param_inout(9, \$errCode, 1024);
$cursor->bind_param_inout(10, \$errNum, 1024);

$cursor->execute();

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I get:
ORA-06512: at "OWNER.CREATE_PERSON", line 164
ORA-06512: at line 1
ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column (DBD ERROR: OCIStmtExecute)

Narrowed it down to the date field (but i could be wrong)....   Any ideas what's going on?

Cheers in advance!

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In reply to Binding a date in a call to an Oracle function by pete_c

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