Yes I agree, the OCI8 api is somewhat different than
the usual php sequence of database commands of php.
We've compiled php using the option --with-oracle for
oracle8i and we're able to make database operations
from php quite normally. Is this probably a timebomb
waiting to go wrong some time?
christie
--- vince cagud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> glad to hear your problem's solved already. =)
> anyway, just for the record, the
> "--with-oracle" compile option is only for oracle7.3
> and below. you have to use the
> oci8 parameter as onie said to be able to run
> against oracle 8 and above. i
> remember reading this in one of the php
> documentation sets.
>
> oci is the oracle call interface for the C
> programming language. it's a library
> that lets one make sql calls against an oracle
> library from his/her C program. i
> find it relatively hard to use as one has to make
> several function calls to be able
> to run one sql statement.
>
>
> vince.
>
> Mary Christie Generalao wrote:
>
> > Yes, we do use phplib.
> >
> > Thanks a lot to those who responded to my
> > oracle+php+apache problem. It's now solved and
> > running.
> >
> > best regards,
> >
> > christie
> >
> > --- "e. pareja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Mary Christie Generalao
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > no.. ill have to support mysql, postgresql,
> and
> > > oracle
> > > [...]
> > > > an oracle db and execute a query from php.
> > >
> > > Try using phplib. It does an excellent job of
> > > abstracting DBs aside from
> > > providing other neat features.
> > > <http://phplib.netuse.de>
> > >
> > > eric
> > > --
> > > eric pareja ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <O> Here, have a
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