Re: PDO and Oracle

Roberto Mansfield wrote:

Folks, I was looking at rewriting some old DB classes using PDO with the Oracle driver, but I'm a bit confused about the current state of things. Some docs said the PDO Oracle driver was experimental and subject to change. I also had a hard time trying to get the driver to compile against Oracle's instant client. Are people using PDO and Oracle in production environments? Am I just being dense and unable to find a guide to compile against the instant client? Thanks for the input. Roberto

Hi Roberto, I still recommend using OCI8 over PDO_OCI. OCI8 has performance benefits, has been around for a while and is relatively stable. You only have to scan the generic PDO bug list to see the number of issues with the generic PDO layer and many of the PDO_xxx drivers. Having said that, there is gradual work being done on PDO and I would encourage people to pound on it. I'm calling 2008 "the year of PDO". Sure hope I don't have to change that to "2009"! What are the configure problems? Chris -- Christopher Jones, Oracle Email: christopher.jones@oracle.com Tel: +1 650 506 8630 Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/opal/ Free PHP Book: http://tinyurl.com/f8jad