access oracle from php (mod_php4)

[Roberto Nunnari]

Hi Al.

It wasn't me who wrote that.. but Alex.

My solution was much easier:

use the ports: databases/php4-oracle

it is not the new oci8 but the old oracle API.. but that's
enough for my needs.

Best regards.


Al Arzaga wrote:
> Roberto,
> 
> Can you elaborate on how you were able to do this?  Where exactly were you
> able to find the Oracle drivers?  I  contacted EasySoft's support guys to
> try and get this working and as much as they tried, they ultimately gave up.
> But at no time did we ever go find Oracle libraries from their website.  I'm
> very curious to know in more detail how you ran the install.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:31:14PM +0100, Roberto Nunnari wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm using a client app to access an oracle 8i database myself.  I'm
>>using unixODBC on freebsd which the oracle 9i libraries from the oracle
>>website and the oracle driver from www.easysoft.com which allows
>>unixodbc apps to use the oracle driver.  I'm not using mod_php4, but I'm
>>pretty sure it can use unixodbc once that's setup.  There is allow a
>>native oracle driver for php, but I don't know anything about it.
> 
> 
>>My app -> unixODBC -> EasySoft Oracle driver -> Oracle libs -> Oracle
>>server
> 
> 


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