Zend Core for Oracle - A PHP and Oracle Web Collaboration
September 19, 2007 by Mark Marucot
Last 2005, Oracle and Zend Technologies entered into a partnership to develop an integrated solutions that provides database-driven website using PHP and Oracle as it’s database.
Zend Core for Oracle is a pre-built stack for PHP developers that makes it easier for them to develop and deploy applications on a robust, scalable and reliable infrastructure. The product includes tight integration with Oracle Database client libraries, and native support for XML and Web services, while also supporting increased adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA). It delivers a rapid development and deployment foundation for database-driven applications.
Why PHP?
According to Zend Core for Oracle FAQ section, PHP is one of the most popular open-source Web Languages in the world and currently used in 40 percent of the web application market.
Why should PHP Developers use Oracle?
Oracle said that Oracle is the number one choice of customers. If it’s combined with Oracle Application Server and JDeveloper, it will offer a complete and robust infrastructure for development and deployment. As customers build more and more business critical applications with PHP, Oracle-based infrastructure offers important features and benefits such as1
- Interoperability with existing applications
- High availability
- Security
- Scalability
- Performance
- Manageability
- Support for large volumes of data
- Support for data warehousing and data mining
- Support for XML data management via Oracle XML DB
Oracle also introduced and optimized OCI-8 extension for PHP to the PHP community for easy integration to Zend Core for Oracle.
This single download gives you a PHP 5 distribution that’s ready for development and deployment against your Oracle database.
Zend Core for Oracle Release 2.0 is available for download, the pre-built PHP stack for Oracle, includes PHP 5.2.1, the refactored OCI8 driver, Oracle Instant Client, and an optional Apache HTTP Server 2.2.2; it’s also supported on Oracle Enterprise Linux.
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