[Phpug] PHP with Oracle...

[Gareth Eason]

Kae Verens wrote:
[snip]
> have you tried Pear's DB abstraction layer?
> http://pear.php.net/package/DB - claims support for oci8 at least.
> or even http://pear.php.net/package/MDB2

	   Hi,

	Apologies for the delay in replying to this. I have seen this work, at
last, though have not had a chance to verify it on my own server setups
as yet - hence the lack of reply...

	The problem was not with the abstraction layers or PHP - it was that
noone bothered to write in any of the documentation that the Oracle SDK
is a required prerequisite for all of this to work. I eventually
inferred this from a comment buried in the middle of some web page I found.

	I can only assume that once the Oracle SDK is installed, I will be able
to use whatever abstraction library I choose - but it was this hurdle
that stumped me for days.

	I will not go into my feelings regarding having to install an SDK on a
production server just to make things work. If someone knows of a better
may of interfacing Oracle with Perl/PHP, please do post a mail.

	Thanks - and see you in Dublin soon for one of those PotD things. :)

	Best regards,
	-->Gar