Re: Oracle 7 support

Hello, First, let me just say that I'm no Oracle guru. :) But while we're waiting for them... "Ford, Mike [LSS]" <M.Ford@lmu.ac.uk> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dan Field [mailto:danf@ceredigion.gov.uk] > > Sent: 12 November 2002 13:39 ...[snip]... > > That is great news, thanks Mike. My second problem then lies with my > > current PHP Setup. I have been using the binary RPMs from RedHat up to > > now, which do not sem to have been compiled with the Oracle > > functionality included. If I recompile PHP, will I need the Oracle > > headers on the machine also? If so this could be a problem as > > the Oracle > > server I wish to use is not on the same machine as the webserver. > > Sorry, I can't help with this one as I'm not the administrator of our main Unix > server, and my test server is Windows so I used the pre-compiled binaries. > > But hopefully one of the Oracle gurus on this list will spring to your aid! > *I think* you need to have Oracle installed even if you wouldn't really connect to it but instead connect to a different server. Since I installed Oracle with most of the Linux installations that I did, I haven't really tried enabling Oracle support in PHP without Oracle on the same server. In other words, I haven't really tried configuring --with-oci8 without supplying the path (e.g. --with-oci8=/path/to/oracle/ ). PHP will look for the needed file when configuring so I don't think you can really get away without installing Oracle first. (Of course, you can just try to find out what files are needed, ask a friend to give you a copy, "trick" php that it exists, etc.--it might not work though...) Anyway, if you need Oracle, try the OTN site. There's one that you can use for development. - E