> On Apr 22, 2015, at 10:50 PM, christopher jones > <christopher.jo...@oracle.com> wrote: > > The current state is that we will be looking at PDO_OCI and OCI8 for > PHP 7 in a short while. Our good intentions got delayed as we have > been working on drivers for other languages > (https://github.com/oracle/node-oracledb and > https://bitbucket.org/anthony_tuininga/cx_oracle/). > > I think the 'experimental' tag is unwarranted. It has some bugs - > probably fewer than the rest of PHP, but is usable. > > Yes, we do recommend using OCI8 over PDO_OCI. This is partly due to > some inherent design and performance weaknesses of the overall PDO > architecture. > > So, lets not mark PDO_OCI as dead just yet.
This is good news. And I agree we shouldn’t give up on PDO_OCI just yet especially if Oracle is willing to take a look at it. I actually just met with a very large global brand a couple of weeks ago which was successfully using PDO_OCI. Andi -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
