That's a valid question. I am not a dba. In fact I'm not even a real designer. I'm only a hack technician who got tired of arguing with the IT department one day and decided to make my own tools to use. I chose php based off the community of php. I tried a couple other languages and a few scripting languages. Every attempt to ask for help came with the high price of getting flamed. In Google groups you can see such an encounter by searching on "grep once awk twice or more". I load about 3 tables from a database called the LERG. It's updated daily. I currently manually load these tables into my scratch database. I don't have to worry about cycles because my app runs on the server in our department which IT does not have access to. So we can query that database all day. Finally the DataWarehouse team gave us access to update our local database via read-only. So I am not abandoning the mysql database just updating it from live data. Would you have a link to the client downloads at OTN? I have been downloading the wrong things apparently. Thanks, bd > -----Original Message----- > From: Ashley M. Kirchner [mailto:ashley@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 3:08 PM > To: Brian Duke > Subject: Re: Quick compile question --with-oci8 > > Brian Duke wrote: > > >Correct me if I'm wrong but we will have to install oracle8 || 9i before > we > >can compile php --with-oci8. I don't really want to run oracle. Our local > >server only needs to use the oci8 functions to log into the datawarehouse > >and update our local mysql database but after a week of frustration I > think > >that's what we have to do. > > > > > Just out of curiosity, wy would you need Oracle if your database is > MySQL? PHP comes with MySQL libraries built-in, or you can choose to > install MySQL libraries from www.mysql.com and compile PHP with them. > > -- > W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. > +-------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:ashley@xxxxxxxxxx> . 303.442.6410 x130 > IT Director / SysAdmin / Websmith . 800.441.3873 x130 > Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 > http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A. > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
