Re: Configuring PHP 4.0 for Oracle 8i on Win NT 4.0

From: Karsten Farrell <kfarrell_at_belgariad.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:52:55 GMT
Message-ID: <X5NG9.42$lz3.5246155@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>

Glenn Nyhan wrote:
> Can anyone help me with the following question? I have Oracle 8i installed
> on Win NT 4.0. Also have PHP 4 installed and am using Apache 1.3.14 <Win32>.
> How do I configure PHP to connect with Oracle? I want to start working with
> PHP to create pages to input and retrieve data from Oracle, and I believe
> there are certain configuration parameters which need to be handled with PHP
> for it to interface with Oracle. Does anyone know how I should go about
> doing that?
>
> Thanks
>
> G
>
>

I did a google search for 'php apache oracle' and got a lot of hits ... from places like phpbuilder.com. However, I also found the following:

http://vsbabu.org/tutorials/oraphp.html

<quote>A brief step-by-step guide to setup Apache with PHP3 in Windows(95/98/NT) to access Oracle databases.</quote>

There's a note that PHP4 is changed, but this might get you started. Received on Mon Dec 02 2002 - 11:52:55 CST