RE: [PHP] ORACLE!!!

You need to create a Connect string in the server where you have a webserver to connect to Oracle. And then try to connect to Oracle using SQL/PLUS. If it works properly, then try using PHP. Let me know if you have more question. Sridhar. -----Original Message----- From: Roberto Ramírez [mailto:al778510@mail.mty.itesm.mx] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 12:03 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] ORACLE!!! Hello, I'm trying to connect to a Oracle Database on a remote server. I have read a lot of documentation but I can't connnect to the database, I dont have a very clear concept of what i need to connect to the Oracle database. I'm using Win2kPro / Apache / PHP 4.2.1 / Oracle 8i Client 8.1.5 In the phpinfo() OCI8 and Oracle modules loads perfeclty. In the documents I've read, I saw that I need environment variables, whats the purpose of those variables? What happens if I dont set the environment variables? Which are the environment variables? (i.e. ORACLE_SID, ORACLE_HOME, etc) I've using this kind of code, but it doesn’t connect me to the server. putenv("ORACLE_HOME=C:\Program Files\Ora81"); <-- Is this the home directory? putenv("ORACLE_SID=SID"); $connection = ora_logon ("user", "pass") or die("No Connection"); I really don’t know why I cant connect, in the SQL Plus I cant connect just by typing the user, password, and Host. Please TELL ME! Any help would be appreciated. Roberto Ramírez -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php