PHP and Oracle: Christopher Jones

Zend Server and Oracle Enterprise Linux

By christopher.jones on November 4, 2009 12:13 PM

You can now use Oracle's free or paid Linux package channels to install Zend Server. In three links: The technical details Wim Coekaerts's blog gives the background The press release...

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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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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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web2Project talk: Northern Virginia Linux User Group at Oracle Reston Sat 7th Feb

By christopher.jones on February 6, 2009 9:18 PM

Late news, but D. Keith Casey Jr just tweeted that he's talking about the web2Project at NoVaLUG 10am Saturday at Oracle's Reston building. Details on the NOVALUG website...

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PHP 5.2.8 RPMs are available on oss.oracle.com

By christopher.jones on January 22, 2009 12:10 PM

I've updated the PHP RPMs on http://oss.oracle.com/projects/php/ and released PHP 5.2.8 RPMs with the OCI8 extension for Oracle Enterprise Linux (i.e Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 4.7 and 5.2 on 32 and 64 bit platforms....

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PHP OCI8 1.3 RPM is now on ULN

By christopher.jones on December 11, 2008 4:10 PM

A "php-oci8-11gR1" RPM is now available on the "Unbreakable Linux Network" (http://linux.oracle.com/) in the Oracle channel. If you have the appropriate ULN subscription, you can use 'up2date' or 'yum' to install it and its dependencies (e.g. the Oracle Instant Client...

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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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Oracle XE, Ubuntu Hardy

By christopher.jones on May 1, 2008 7:24 PM

After upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 and deciding to reinstall a bunch of software, I had to revisit a quirk in one Oracle XE shell script:/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin/nls_lang.sh: 114: [[: not foundI get the error when I source /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin/oracle_env.sh to set my environment...

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PHP RPMs with OCI8 and PDO_OCI Extensions

By christopher.jones on July 2, 2007 8:17 PM

If you want a complete set of PHP RPMs including the OCI8 and PDO_OCI extensions, go to http://oss.oracle.com/projects/php/ The intent of this "project" is to make a relatively current version of PHP available for testing.  The RPMs hosted at the...

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Upgrade PHP with Oracle Application Server on Linux

By christopher.jones on June 1, 2007 4:11 PM

Oracle includes PHP with its mid-tier Application Server 10g Release 3 allowing you to use the same web server for PHP and for J2EE applications.PHP is enabled by default. The Oracle HTTP Server document root is$ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/htdocsFiles with .php or .phtml...

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Oracle and Linux

By christopher.jones on April 20, 2007 5:32 PM

If you read this blog via a feedreader you might not have seen my link to Mike Olson's blog. Always worth hearing out, he recently discussed Oracle and  Enterprise Linux (here and here).  Mike was CEO of Sleepycat, makers of...

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When a few seconds are important: improving PHP Oracle connection speed

By christopher.jones on March 28, 2007 2:44 AM

I read the announcement about Oracle and the Open Invention Network.  When I get back to San Francisco next week I hope to hear more about it from my team who are working faithfully to make Linux better.  In the...

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Oracle Instant Client RPMs are Back

By christopher.jones on January 4, 2007 7:40 PM

Linux RPMs for Oracle Instant Client are back. The Oracle 10.2.0.3 release on x86 has both RPMs and ZIP files available at http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/instantclient/Now you know why I hadn't been in a hurray to remove the references to RPMs in my...

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Installing Oracle XE on Ubuntu with PHP

By christopher.jones on December 21, 2006 1:26 AM

I've been in the US and A for three months and finally got a TV. This means there is now time sitting on the couch with my wife that can be fruitfully spent clearing out my "to look at" URLs....

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OSCON Portland 2006 is Next Week

By christopher.jones on July 16, 2006 6:10 PM

There are three Oracle talks at OSCON in Portland next week:Getting Started in Linux Kernel Development, Randy DunlapDeveloping Berkeley DB Java Edition: Internals and War Stories, Charles LambOnward and Upward: Faster PHP with Oracle, Christopher JonesCome and say hi to...

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