Great,
thanks for a complete answer
I love it..
I ran
mysql> show variables;
to see if my host server has Oracle support,,
I don't see anything about Oracle or any other DBMS,,
any way to tell without asking them?
ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "CC Zona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] remote database exchange
> In article <012601c10e4a$6c7a2ec0$b943500c@zeospantera>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Sommers) wrote:
>
> > Suppose I Need to get Vendor prices from a very large remote (Oracle)
price
> > list .
> > They probably don't have PHP installed.
>
> If...
>
> -you have PHP installed,
> -AND you have Oracle support compiled in to that install,
> -AND you have connection info (username/password/hostname) for an account
> on that Oracle system that has been granted access to vendor prices,
> -AND you know how to use PHP's Oracle functions,
> -AND you know how to query an Oracle database
>
> ...then you're set. Whether they have PHP installed or not is irrelevant.
>
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