Re: Use PHP to connect to Oracle 8i database
| From: | Joe Conway | Date: | Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:04:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Use PHP to connect to Oracle 8i database | ||
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> I want to use php to connect to an Oracle 8i database.
>
> I have 2 questions:
> 1) does the webserver have to be installed on the
> database server?
No -- you just have to configure your tnsnames.ora so that the web server
can connect. Try sqlplus first. If you can connect with sqlplus, you should
be able to connect from PHP.
> 2) do you have to use the OCI libraries?
>
Yes, you do need the oracle client.
See http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.oci8.php for
more info. Particularly
see the note on pthread.
HTH,
-- Joe