Re: Oracle Connection

You can use ODBC as well. Compile PHP with iODBC (http://www.iodbc.org) and you can use an ODBC driver instead of the oci - this can bypass the Oracle client install in many cases. Best regards, Andrew -------------------------------------------- Andrew Hill . Director Technology Evangelism OpenLink Software . www.openlinksw.com Internet Data Integration Technology On 4/10/01 11:53 AM, "Brian S. Dunworth" <brian@theprintinghouse.com> wrote: > At 08:42 AM 4/10/01 -0700, Dunaway, Brian wrote: > >> I need to access a remote oracle database. What I mean is that the machine >> that is allowed access to the oracle database is not running php...I have >> access to the machine with the oracle access from my machine which is >> running php. Boy that sounds confusing. > > No, not really. > >> anyway I am setting my environment with putenv(oracle_home=/something) and >> putenv(oracle_sid=database)...what can I do? any ideas? > > I'm assuming that this isn't working for you. Make sure you set > NLS_LANG etc, as well in your environment, as specified in the PHP > documentation. > > Do you have an Oracle client installed on the machine that has PHP > installed on it? Did you compile PHP with oci8 support? > > Here, our web server (Linux) has Apache/PHP and Oracle Net8 client > installed. The Net8 client talks to our Sun box with Oracle 8i > installed. Works with PHP with no hitches. > >> Brian D. > > yeah, me too. :) > >> Running PHP 4 > > yeah, me too. :) > > - Brian > > ------------------------------------- > Brian S. Dunworth > Sr. Software Development Engineer > Oracle Database Administrator > The Printing House, Ltd. > > (850) 875-1500 x225 > <brian@theprintinghouse.com> > ------------------------------------- >