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From: Martin McCormick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 10 March 2004 21:31
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP] If Using PHP CLI to Query Oracle8I DB, is
Version Number Critical?
We use PHP 4.3.4 (cli) to query a Microsoft SQL
database server with no problem. We are now going to attempt
the same sort of thing, only with a Pinnacle server running
an Oracle8I data base.
The php installation is on a FreeBSD UNIX platform and
the Pinnacle server is on a Windows platform.
Being very new to all this, my question is simply
whether or not this should work? I am concerned that php
comes with an Oracle7 client, but the data base I need to
query and write back to is Oracle8I which might, someday,
upgrade to a higher version.
For an Oracle 8i database you want the OCI extension, not the Oracle
extension. OCI should be the extension of choice for Oracle version 7 and
later.
If I am using the PHP CLI to extract data from the
server with, of course, correct syntax, does the Oracle
version even matter?
No, not as long as it's supported by the extension you use. OCI should be
fine for Oracle 8i and subsequent versions -- there have certainly been
users of 9i posting to this or the PHP-DB list.
Cheers!
Mike
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Mike Ford, Electronic Information Services Adviser,
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Graham Building, Leeds Metropolitan University, Beckett Park, LEEDS, LS6
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