RE: [PHP-DB] oracle and php

At 09:05 AM 4/6/01 -0500, Brian.J.Mauter wrote:

If you're using Linux or Unix, then you're going to have to compile Oracle into PHP.

right...

This is quite troublesome.

not really.

For this to work, you first must install Oracle8i (maybe just the client will work?).

Yes, you may install only the client Net8 client on the webserver. ..but you also must configure it so that it can reach your Oracle database (presumably on a different server). Here, I've got Apache/PHP and the Oracle Net8 client installed on a Linux box. The database is installed on a huge Sun box.

This also requires a specific version of the Java Runtime Environment (available at www.blackdown.com for Linux).

Could you explain this? I don't recall having to install any specific Java Runtime Environment on our Linux box...

After that, on your ./configure line, you need the option --with-oci=/usr/local/Oracle/ or wherever you installed Oracle.

or, more specifically, the ORACLE_HOME directory. Quite likely, it's more apt to be --with-oci=/home/oracle/OraHome1/

Brian Mauter brian.mauter@ua.edu

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