Underground PHP Oracle Manual
September 19, 2007 by Mark Marucot
The book is designed to bridge the gap between the many PHP and the many Oracle texts available. This book is not a complete PHP or Oracle guide. It is assumed that you already have basic PHP and SQL knowledge and want best practices in using PHP against an Oracle database.
Release 1.4 is available for download from the Oracle Technology Network. Click here to download the file.
This new release includes lots of updates, including information on the PHP PDO_OCI extension, testing the OCI8 extension, tracing OCI8 internals, and comparison of old and new OCI8 function names.
The highlights of the changes are the following:
- Updated the versions of software in the install steps. Show how to use the Windows MSI installer. Added a section on upgrading OCI8 in PHP4. Added a section on enabling PDO.
- Updated the SQL Developer section.
- Improved and extended the examples. Many more can now be cut-and-pasted and run standalone.
- Added new connection performance tips.
- Show how to retrieve PL/SQL “success with information” errors.
- Added a section on testing.
- Added a chapter mapping PHP 4 to PHP 5 function names.
- Added a chapter on mapping ora_* to oci_* function names
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