Sometimes you get the error "ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column". This error is highly misleading especially when you have no LONG columns or LONG values.
From my testing it seems this error can be caused when the value of a bound variable exceeds the length allocated.
To avoid this error make sure you specify lengths when binding varchars e.g.
<?php
oci_bind_by_name($stmt,':string',$string, 256);
?>
And for numerics use the default length (-1) but tell oracle its an integer e.g.
<?php
oci_bind_by_name($stmt,':num',$num, -1, SQLT_INT);
?>
