Oracle support in PHP?

[John Korchok]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Schmidt [mailto:ryandesign at macports.org] 
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 5:55 PM
> To: John Korchok
> Cc: macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
> Subject: Re: Oracle support in PHP?
> 
> 
> 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.
 
When I run phpinfo, the last configure command is:
'--with-oci8=instantclient,/opt/local/lib/oracle' 

At http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/notes/technote_php_instant.html,
under the heading "Enabling the PHP OCI8 Extension on Linux " they suggest a
syntax like:
'--with-oci8-instant-client=/opt/local/lib/oracle' 

Phpinfo has an oci8 section further, and it looks like it is getting
installed.