mysql_fetch_field in oracle

[olehm]

HI! Can s.o. tell me how I can get the field names of a table in oracle? For mysql I used the function "mysql_fetch_field" but I can not find s.th. like that in oci functions. I tried it also with pear but tableInfo() works only with mysql, too.
There is one way to get the Information by requesting:
[FONT=times new roman]select column_name from user_tab_columns where table_name='TABLE';[/FONT]

Can somebody show me an easier way?

[jmcneese]

select table_name from user_tables;
describe table_name;

[olehm]

How can I execute "describe table_name;" in PHP and how can I get then the Information? I had only success with SQL*PLUS using this statement.

But I figgured out one more possebility:
$column_name = OCIColumnName($stmt,$i);