By alison.holloway on June 21, 2006 2:27 PM
PHP Coders, Get Busy: The Underground PHP Oracle Manual is Here
Chris Jones and I have just finished and released version 1.2 of The Underground PHP and Oracle Manual. This book gives you help installing the Oracle, Apache, and PHP on Linux and Windows. It will help you understand and start working with the new OCI8 (Oracle's API) changes for PHP.
We still need to do more work on this, and there'll probably be another version coming out soon, but it's a good start. Take a look, and let me know what you think about it by leaving comments on this posting.
By alison.holloway on June 22, 2006 12:27 PM
PHP for the Enterprise
By Rich Schwerin
My Oracle colleague,
Rich Schwerin, recently interviewed my manager, Richard Rendell, and wrote this article on PHP in the enterprise. The article was published in the May/June edition of the Oracle magazine, and I wanted to post it here as it's a nice piece on PHP written by my mates (we Aussies call everyone 'mate' you know).
By alison.holloway on June 29, 2006 3:44 PM
I've just returned to Melbourne (yes, that's Australia, down the bottom of the world) from New York City, where the very first New York PHP Conference and Expo was held. Chris Jones and I flew over from Australia for it. It's a long way. Really. I'm not a lover of flying, but mostly not a lover of eating bad United Airlines food!
At the NYPHP Conference, I gave a presentation on the new OCI8 PHP driver features that are relevant to PHP developers. I worked with Todd Trichler, another Oracle guy, on the PHPFest, and together we went through installing Oracle, Zend Core for Oracle, and how to use the refactored OCI8 driver in your PHP/Oracle projects.
The talk went down well, and I think we had about 48 people in the room, soaking up information and free beer.
The next day Chris Jones gave his keynote, and Chris did a great job, especially considering he was close to losing his voice due to a throat infection. Nice work Chris!
It was fantastic to meet so many of the PHP and opensource community, and I hope I can get along to next year's conference too. If I met you there, and didn't get your email, please feel free to email me via this blog.
Until next posting ...
