Pete Clarke wrote:
Hi all, I have a Debian Sarge server running Apache/Apache-SSL/PHP (Sarge standard releases).I need to add Oracle support to this box so that I can connect via PHP to an Oracle Server (Solaris 9 box) across the network...is this a simple thing todo? I have tried Googling, but nothing useful came up (that I could find) .. I understand that I need to install the Oracle client libraries on the Debian box..do I have to do anything else? Cheers, Pete.
Installing the Oracle 9i client is easy. It's the database install that sucks, mainly due to Oracle's craptastic gui and it's problems.
As for PHP you may have to have some options configured at compile-time to support Oracle. I don't know for sure as I just started messing with PHP yesterday.