The internal refcount of a connection identifier must be zero
before the underlying connection to the database is closed.
<?php
$conn = oci_connect('hr', 'welcome', 'localhost/XE');
if (!$conn) {
$e = oci_error();
trigger_error(htmlentities($e['message'], ENT_QUOTES), E_USER_ERROR);
}
$stid = oci_parse($conn, 'SELECT * FROM departments'); // this increases the refcount on $conn
oci_execute($stid);
oci_fetch_all($stid, $res);
var_dump($res);
oci_close($conn);
// $conn is no longer usable in the script but the underlying database
// connection is still held open until $stid is freed.
var_dump($conn); // prints NULL
// While PHP sleeps, querying the Oracle V$SESSION view in a
// terminal window will show that the database user is still connected.
sleep(10);
// When $stid is freed, the database connection is physically closed
oci_free_statement($stid);
// While PHP sleeps, querying the Oracle V$SESSION view in a
// terminal window will show that the database user has disconnected.
sleep(10);
?>