[PHP-DB] really more of an oracle question

2001-04-17 Thread Brian.J.Mauter
Hey everyone, please disregard this off-topic question. I think I may need some PHP knowledge too, but here goes. In all of the documentation I've found, a DBA can write stored procedures, functions and views. I know how to write a stored procedure to do INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE functions. I

[PHP-DB] Re: installation blues with oracle 8i

2001-04-09 Thread Brian.J.Mauter
On your configure script try this: ./configure --with-oci=/path/to/your/oracle/installation/home I think your PHP configure script still cannot find the Oracle home directory (have you set ORACLE_HOME in your environment?). Good luck, Brian Mauter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Database

[PHP-DB] Oracle vs MS SQL vs MySQL

2001-04-04 Thread Brian.J.Mauter
Hey, Has anyone tried out all three of these DBMS packages and evaluated them? I was wondering what everyone is having the best luck with when writing PHP scripts. I'm using Oracle8i and if you don't mind, it's a pain in the tail. :-P While I'm asking, let's not limit it to just those three,

[PHP-DB] Re: Connecting to Oracle

2001-03-13 Thread Brian.J.Mauter
Hey, I'm using Oracle with PHP. I never could get the blasted thing to work right. What I ended up doing was something similar to this: $db = "(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=192.68.10.1)(PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=TEST)))"; $conn = OCILogon("scott", "tiger", $db); From what I