Re: PHP an Oracle.

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, you wrote: > On 2000-08-21, Jorge Sarmiento stated: > > } How can I acces an Oracle 8.1R2 Enterprise Database installed in a > } Windows NT box using PHP 4.0?? > } > } My PHP 4.0 is installed on a Red Hat 6.2 Linux Box, and is currently > } configure to have PostgreSQL support, I cannot configure it with Oracle > } Support cause there is no Oracle directory in my linux (Oracle 8.1 is > } installed on the NT). > > [i really need to get that tutorial published!] > > You will need to install Oracle 8i client on your linux box, as php needs > the client libraries for the OCI functions to work. You'll then be able to > connect to any 7.x or 8.x database using OCI. Note that if you're running > apache, you'll need two SetEnv's in your httpd.conf file: TNS_ADMIN and > ORACLE_HOME. Both of these varables need to be pointing to a LOCAL drive, > as apache doesn't allow a remote tnsnames.ora file due to security > reasons, it seems. > > Note that I'm writing a quick tutorial for NT/windoze users for getting > Oracle and PHP running [it is more difficult in windoze], and I'll e.mail > this list and php-windows with the URL when it is ready. > > HTH, > > /vjl/ Isn't there anyway to Install oracle support without having to install the oracle client? On linux, I believe the oracle client install requires xwindows and we don't install xwindows on our webservers. Is there somewhere I can jsut download the required oracle libraries? Jason