PHP and Oracle: Christopher Jones

New Article "Using PHP with Oracle HTTP Server 11g"

By christopher.jones on September 14, 2009 12:13 PM

Our Application Server team have put together a new article on installing PHP to use with the latest version of "Oracle HTTP Server" from our Fusion Middleware suite. The article is at: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/ohs/htdocs/php_ohs.htm....

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Oracle DB 10.2 for Mac OS X 64bit

By christopher.jones on April 10, 2009 1:29 PM

I just saw Kris Rice's tweet that Oracle Database 10.2.0.4 is available for Mac OS X 64 bit: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/oracle10g/htdocs/10204macsoft_x86-64.html You can get 32 & 64 bit Oracle Instant Client libraries for linking client tools & programs from: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantclient/htdocs/intel_macsoft.html The 32...

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Reducing diskspace of your Oracle Instant Client install

By christopher.jones on April 8, 2009 12:13 AM

Most PHP OCI8 users link PHP with the Oracle Instant Client (IC) libraries that handle the underlying "client" (i.e PHP OCI8 extension) communication with the database. IC is relatively small for the features it gives, and is very easy to...

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PHP OCI8 Signal Handling and --enable-sigchild

By christopher.jones on March 23, 2009 6:58 PM

I am no longer blindly recommending using --enable-sigchild when configuring PHP with the OCI8 extension. I used to do this as a catch-all. It might have saved some users grief, and did little harm. With changes in recent versions of...

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OCI8 1.3 Extension for PHP 5.2 on Windows and Linux

By christopher.jones on March 23, 2009 2:23 PM

If you're using PHP 5.2 I would generally recommend upgrading the OCI8 extension to 1.3 for better behavior, bug fixes and features. This new OCI8 has substantially refactored connection code and adds support for DRCP Connection Pooling, FAN, and External...

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PECL Install Prompts Explained, With Particular Reference to OCI8

By christopher.jones on March 20, 2009 12:00 AM

The short version of the article: To install the PHP OCI8 extension from the PECL repository do: $ pecl install oci8 downloading oci8-1.3.4.tgz ... Starting to download oci8-1.3.4.tgz (134,240 bytes) ....done: 134,240 bytes 10 source files, building running: phpize Configuring...

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Oracle Enterprise Linux Yum Server Available

By christopher.jones on March 19, 2009 2:44 PM

After a slightly protracted delay waiting for our earnings announcement, Oracle Linux Engineering have just announced Enterprise Linux packages for Release 4, Release 5 and Oracle VM 2 are now freely available on a yum server http://public-yum.oracle.com/. Previously, the whole...

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PHP 5.2.9 RPMs for RHEL are available

By christopher.jones on March 18, 2009 11:04 AM

PHP 5.2.9 RPMs for RHEL 4 & 5, 32 & 64 bit are now up on http://oss.oracle.com/projects/php/. The OCI8 1.3.5 extension is included. If you followed me on twitter, you would have got this news yesterday :)...

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The PHP "./configure --with-oci8" Option in Detail

By christopher.jones on March 12, 2009 9:52 PM

When PHP is built from source code on Linux, the typical build steps are: tar -xjf php-5.2.9.tar.bz2 cd php-5.2.9 ./configure --with-your-desired-extensions make make test make install The "configure" stage creates the appropriate makefile to build all the extensions you want....

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Installing Oracle Database 11g on Ubuntu

By christopher.jones on November 20, 2008 4:00 AM

Paul Vallee from Pythian emailed me that they have a new installation guide out. The name says it all: Installing Oracle 11gR1 on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex....

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