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
Brian,
Thanks for the solution, that is a good one.
I imagine you can set the environment variable oracle_sid this way also.
ORACLE_SID=(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=192.68.10.1)(PORT=1521)
)(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=TEST)))
re: TNSNAMES.ORA
It seems to be a fairly common occurence where