Re: Oracle 8.1.6, Solaris and PHP

> Hi, > I\'m relatively new to PHP and I want to use it in conjunction with Oracle > (well if you\'ve got one, why not use it? :). I initially have placed it on > my app server which has a full Oracle client implementation. However when I Make sure what you mean by "full". If your oracle client installation was full, php won't complain at compile time that some libraries are missing?! You can install a oracle client with many differen options. Make sure at least those are installed: NET 8, OCI, C, SQLPlus, Installation Not all of those are really needed, but they may be helpfull in the future. > run the make after the configure (with oci8 of course) it starts muttering > about header files that are only available on the server. I\'m worried that: > a) I can only build the php on an Oracle server not client. > b) Even if I do build it on a server and migrate it to a client (which I\'m > not sure how to do) will the remote Oracle connections be OK? to case b): It won't be OK to do so. PHP needs always a working oracle client to be installed on the system php is running. > > Does anyone have any help or advice on this? > > Thanks in advance. > Robert. Benjamin