Re: OT: PHP 5.6 with ohs in FM11g on Win2k12 (x64)

sadly my developers want me to install PHP 5.6 with a 11g instantclient for backward compatibility... I decided to download a WAMP server to see how they configured PHP in theirs, discovered they don't use fastCGI or mod_proxy_fcgi at all, they used the old straightforward method. I don't know yet whether it can work at all with ohs

One of PHP's problems is probably that it's not backward compatible from version to version. Every time a new version is released, you lose part of your user base who see upgrading as a major crossroad; then they opt to go somewhere else.

It's sad because we found that PHP served web pages much faster than mod_plsql could.

We experimented with Plone and python at one point but quickly discovered that Plone wasn't scalable. They never had a good driver to connect to Oracle either, when I asked about it at a session at Washington University the attendees looked at me as if I was from the Dark Side (the Oracle, non open-source side). Most of the python and plone users seemed to be small organizations like non profit groups who didn't intend to serve large data sets. Zope is just a flat file, like MS Access. We needed to connect to Oracle and serve scientific data.

thanks Mladen for responding.

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 10:25 PM, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> PHP jumped directly from 5.x to 7.x. The version 6.x exists but is
> practically not used. Most of the people have transitioned directly from
> 5.x to 7.x. And yes, PHP is being less and less used. I believe that this
> can be formulated very simply: "Python has prevailed". I used to do a lot
> of PHP and Perl, but nowadays, everybody wants Python. My favourite for the
> CLI is still Perl, but the fact is that the new engineers coming out of
> college mostly uses Python. In other words, Python has constricted PHP,
> Perl and probably Ruby. I read a book about Python and tried some simple
> scripts. It's not that bad, although I dislike the consistent object
> orientation features. I don't believe that OO programming is the best
> approach for everything.
> However, if you want to use PHP 7, it's still there. Oracle is still
> maintaining the oci8 module and it works perfectly. PHP 7 introduced strict
> typing, which is significant departure from type free language that PHP
> used to be.
>
>
> On 02/06/2017 08:59 AM, Patrice sur GMail wrote:
>
> There are multiple instructions on the 'net (including on php.net and the
> underground php manual) which are outdated and useless. Some are
> confusing, last time I installed PHP it was straightforward. Now PHP seems
> to be fragmenting: thread safe, nts, fcgi, no fcgi, 32-bit or 64-bit, vc9,
> vc11, some have php5apache2_4.dll, some don't. Some articles seem to
> assume that if you're on Windows you're using IIS, but I don't know anyone
> who has used IIS in the last 10 years. Whatever happened to PHP 6? Last
> time I checked when we count it goes like this: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and then
> 7. As for 32-bit... Wasn't that for Windows 3.1.1 to Windows XP? Windows
> 7 was desupported years ago, it's on extended support (aka. the palliative
> care ward).
>
> Is there a blog post somewhere or a tech note on how to configure php for
> ohs in FM11g on Windows x64?
>
> Google is practically useless, it used to show only pages with the
> keywords we mentioned but now it pads the search results with all kinds of
> useless and irrelevant content. We used to be able to insist that a
> keyword was in the pages by prefixing with a + sign, but when Google
> decided to plug Google+ instead of provide accurate search results, that
> functionality disappeared.
>
> I note that Oracle seems to have jettisoned supporting PHP by using fcgi
> instead. The only page I found on OTN had to do with installing PHP on
> linux.
>
> PHP used to be the darling scripting language, what happened?
>
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