Oracle support in PHP?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 10, 2007, at 16:42, John Korchok wrote:

> I had no errors or other problems installing the "oracle- 
> instantclient" port
> or the "php5 +oracle" port. Thanks Ryan!

Oh good!


> I am assuming I still need to modify php.ini to point at oci8.so,  
> but I
> can't find it (oci8.o is there). I did find the libraries under lib/ 
> oracle.

Nope, nothing needs to be done in that regard. There is no oci8.so or  
any other separate file. The oci8 functions have simply been compiled  
into php and libphp5.so.


> http://www.php.net/oci8 is just baffling. It reads like a pile of
> potentially useful but untested information. Using the Instant  
> Client (as
> they recommend) does not create an oracle user or group, as far as  
> I can
> tell.

I didn't program any user or group creation into the oracle- 
instantclient portfile, no. Should I have? What would that user/group  
be used for?

The page is certainly Greek to me, since I haven't used Oracle.