I have a fragment of php code which connects to an external Oracle data base. It looks mostly like:
<?php //open connection to database $conn = oci_connect("db_name", "PASS_WORD", "host.name.OKSTATE.EDU"); if (!$conn) { $e = oci_error(); print htmlentities($e['message']); exit; } ?> We have had php5 installed on the system in question for a couple of years and just successfully installed linux-oracle-instantclient-sqlplus. The info from php says it understands shared libraries. If I run the code fragment via php using a script starting with #! /usr/local/bin/php I get # Fatal error: Call to undefined function oci_connect() in /usr/home/martin/tmp/qtest on line 4 I am not terribly surprised since, unless a shared library changed, php is the same old php we have had all this time. Basically, I am confused as to what I need to do next to weld the tail on the donkey.:-) Somehow, this all has to fit together to produce the connection to the Oracle server. The linux-oracle-instantclient-sqlplus pkg-descr file says: Oracle instant client - SQLPlus distribution Instant Client allows you to run your applications without installing the standard Oracle client or having an ORACLE_HOME. OCI, OCCI, ODBC, and JDBC applications work without modification, while using significantly less disk space than before. Even SQL*Plus can be used with Instant Client. No recompile, no hassle. Any suggestion? Obviously the php application hasn't gotten wind of the instantclient yet. Martin McCormick Systems Engineer 405 744-7572 Stillwater, OK Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"