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PHP RPMs for Oracle

By alison.holloway on July 3, 2007 12:04 PM

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...

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Zend Core for Oracle 2.0 Released

By alison.holloway on May 24, 2007 2:44 PM

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....

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Underground PHP and Oracle Manual 1.4 Available

By alison.holloway on May 15, 2007 11:48 AM

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...

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Working with PHP and Oracle Presentation

By alison.holloway on December 6, 2006 3:06 PM

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...

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New Zend Core for Oracle Released

By alison.holloway on September 20, 2006 6:46 PM

Zend have just released a new version of Zend Core for Oracle, the prebuilt stack of Oracle Instant Client, Apache and PHP. It's version 1.5 and now has an optional installation of Apache 2.0.59. It used to automatically install Apache...

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Underground PHP Oracle Book

By alison.holloway on June 21, 2006 2:27 PM

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...

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Installing Zend Core and Oracle

By alison.holloway on April 20, 2006 5:16 PM

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...

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