Figuring how shouldn't be too tough. Compiling software for the most part is a breeze. My concern was whether I needed to recompile or not. I am now trying that, and hopefully this will address the problem for me. As to the recompiling with every release, that is no big deal either as the recompile is all of 4 entries on the command line. Putting this together in a shell script is simplicity in itself, and requires no polishing up even though most of my system scripting I do in Perl. It is nice to see though that you are not trying to tell me how Win-blows is better than Unix. Sure Windows is nice in that virtually everything is simple enough for a 3rd grader to do stuff on it, but I like to think I have a little more intelligence than your average 3rd grader. Oh well, I don't want this to degenerate any further so we can agree to disagree about platforms or you can admit to possibly being a closet Unix fan. :) -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Jameson (USA) [mailto:RJameson@usa.ibs.org] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 3:19 PM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: RE: Oracle/PHP question... BTW... I'm not the one stuck trying to figure out how to recompile my current version of PHP to include the oci functions... haha! And guess what, with every release you get to do it all over again... so polish up on the shell scripting unless you want to reinvent the wheel every month or two. :-D <>< Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Jameson (USA) Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 2:15 PM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: RE: Oracle/PHP question... :-) ... Windows is the best at running the C# .NET applications I have to build to make everyone happy that we are "industry standard" ... when big brother is not looking I use PHP for everything I can get away with. I'm actually very impressed with how easily PHP integrates into an IIS / MSSQL environment (in CGI mode that is) ... it has been quite stable and believe it or not upgrades don't require a reboot!!! I have even called the php parser directly from sql server dts packages & agent jobs... PHP is much more powerful then anything m$ offers. <>< Ryan -----Original Message----- From: NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI) [mailto:sn4265@sbc.com] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 2:08 PM To: Ryan Jameson (USA); php-db@lists.php.net Subject: RE: Oracle/PHP question... Thanks, but my web server is HP-UX. Didn't anyone ever tell you Win-blows sucks? :) -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Jameson (USA) [mailto:RJameson@usa.ibs.org] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 3:07 PM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: RE: Oracle/PHP question... If your webserver is win32 then you need to uncomment the line in php.ini that says : ;extension=php_oci8.dll .... if it is unix based I am not sure what you need to do. <>< Ryan -----Original Message----- From: NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI) [mailto:sn4265@sbc.com] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 1:58 PM To: 'php-db@lists.php.net' Subject: Oracle/PHP question... I am now trying to setup connectivity to a remote Oracle database for my PHP/Apache web server. I am attempting to verify connectivity to the database by: <?php $connection = OCILogon("user", "password") or die ("Unable to logon to database."); ?> I have installed the Oracle client on the system, and I have also setup the ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID environment variables. Unfortunately at this point I am not even able to make a successful connection to the Oracle database. I am currently receiving the following error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: ocilogon() in /www/DW/oratest.php on line 10 Do I need to recompile PHP to be Oracle aware or something? What is it I am missing at this point? Thanks in advance. Scott Nipp Phone: (214) 858-1289 E-mail: sn4265@sbc.com Web: http:\\ldsa.sbcld.sbc.com -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
