Good news everyone. We've just released a set of RPMs for PHP which include OCI8 and the Oracle PDO driver, as well as many other PHP extensions. These are for development testing only, as Oracle doesn't support them. The RPMs...
Since I've started blogging about little idiosyncracies I've been experiencing in PHP, I've been getting feedback that you want more. Okay. I'll start adding little tid-bits that might help out someone out there. So here's one I found (again) today.While...
Zend have just released a new version of Zend Core for Oracle. This is a prebuilt and tested stack of Apache, PHP and Oracle Instant Client. If you haven't used it before, you will like the easy setup. I promise....
I've just been setting up PHP 5.2.2 on Windows XP Pro, with Apache 2.0.59. I couldn't get Apache to find the correct php.ini file. It was looking in C:\Windows, instead of where I installed PHP. The httpd.conf file told Apache...
After a few weeks of furious writing, Chris Jones and I have released the latest version of The Underground PHP and Oracle Manual. This is version 1.4, and includes updates on:PHP PDO_OCI extensionTesting the OCI8 extensionTracing OCI8 internalsComaprison of old...
Richard Rendell, my manager, and leader of all things PHP at Oracle, has an article in this month's International PHP Magazine. Here's a reprint of the original article.It has info on connection options with Oracle databases, and the new connection...
I've just got back from delivering my Working with PHP and Oracle presentation at the Melbourne Opensource Developers' Conference. I don't think the organisers are going to post the presentations, so I wanted to make it available here. This talk...
Chris Jones and I have just released an updated version of the Underground PHP and Oracle Manual on OTN. We've numbered it as 1.2.1, and it has some bug fixes, and some extra information on Oracle SQL Developer. If you...
I just read Cal Evans review on the Zend Developer Zone of the book Chris Jones and myself recently published on the Oracle Technology Network, the Underground PHP and Oracle Manual. I have to say I feel quite flattered, and...
PHP Coders, Get Busy: The Underground PHP Oracle Manual is HereChris 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...
Chris Jones and I recently travelled to Sydney's first LinuxWorld, and delivered a three hour training course, with colleague Aslam Edah-Tally. We wrote a small guide on installing Oracle XE, Zend Core for Oracle, and using the new PHP OCI8...
Introduction In November 2005 I attended the PHP Conference in Frankfurt. At that conference I did a demonstration which showed how to integrate PHP Web Services using Oracle BPEL, and the Oracle JDeveloper PHP Extension. I have written up that...
It's easy to get confused as to how to specificy your Oracle database connection string, and there's a handy new feature in Oracle 10g that makes this a whole lot easier. So here's a little rundown of the three ways...
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