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...
Phew! The Oracle OpenWorld conference is: wrapped up. Check me out on video. Now onto ZendCon down at the other end of Silicon Valley. My ZendCon talk is on Tuesday afternoon. In what seems just the last few weeks a...
If you have an interest in dynamic language programming here are the Oracle sessions to attend. There are also unconference sessions happening - check out the OTN area for details on each day. Conference Sessions S311373 Agile Web Development: Ruby/Rails...
I just released an Alpha version of PECL OCI8 1.4 on http://pecl.php.net/package/oci8 The code is also merged to what will eventually be the PHP 5.3.2 and PHP 6.0 releases. Documentation will appear on http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.oci8.php in the next few days, if...
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....
Hey there! Kuassi Mensah and I will be presenting at the upcoming PHP Code|Works conference tour, which kicks off later this month. Code|Works is the latest generation of conference from the folk who, amongst other things, present the excellent PHP|Tek...
Introduction The Edition-Based Redefinition (EBR) feature of Oracle Database 11gR2 is ideal for web sites that aim for no downtime when releasing application enhancements. Editioning allows certain database objects to have multiple versions all available at the same time....
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 is now available for download. It's a great feeling to see this major release available to customers. Lots of hard work has gone into it and my thanks go to all those folk at Oracle...
Thanks to the Oracle Technology Network design team our very popular, free Underground PHP & Oracle Manual has had a makeover and gained a snazzy new front cover. Farewell to the photo of the underground car park door that used...
Today a reader mailed me about manipulating XMLType columns when the data is longer than the 4K limit that character-type handling imposes. My free book (see sidebar) has examples of how to do this using CLOB handling in PHP. I...
Yesterday PHP 5.3 was released. It can be downloaded from the PHP site. This release has been the product of combined efforts from all areas of the community. While core PHP language developers may have the public profile of soccer...
PHP 5.3 is currently due to go production on Tuesday 30th June 2009. The release managers are working hard to get all the final pieces in place. In the PHP core development community there has been a tiny bit of...
I'm really looking forward to the Dutch PHP conference this week. Robert Brouwer from Oracle Netherlands is talking on Friday at 11:45 about Keeping Web Applications Lean and Mean. The need for monitoring is something that comes up all the...
Conference organizers tell me business use-case studies don't do well. Last night's San Francisco PHP Meetup would have proved them wrong. A big crowd was paying very close attention and asking lots of questions to the SonicLiving crew, whose talk...
PHP 5.3 is approaching the pointy end of development and it's worth me blogging so awareness and testing increases before general release. The second release candidate for PHP 5.3 has been announced. Source code is http://downloads.php.net/johannes/. Windows binaries are at...
Blair Layton, Senior Manager of Oracle's APAC Developer Program is talking at the next Singapore PHP meeting on: • Oracle Database Fundamentals for PHP Developers • Using SQL Developer with MySQL and Oracle • Deploying Oracle Database to the Amazon...
The Google "Mid-year" of Code projects for students to work on improvements to PHP have been finalized: http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/php. If you want to follow along there is a mail list which can be subscribed to on http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php. If you weren't selected...
The oracle.c and oracle.h files for the "oracle" PHP extension were checked into the php/fi 2.0 source code by Stig Sæther Bakken on this day in 1997. (Hat tip to Johannes Schlüter for leading me to the files in CVS)...
The Oracle 11g DRCP connection pooling "connection broker" process handles incoming connection requests. It also retains a socket for idle connections, thus enabling faster reconnection. Large web applications with multiple mid-tier Apache servers typically need to increase the database server...
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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