Every evening, for whatever reason, our Oracle db (9.2.0) is restated. After it is restarted, I am unable to build a connection with Oracle from PHP untill Apache is restarted. Whenever I do an ociplogon() or ocilogon() following an Oracle DB restart, it fails but I am unable to get a description of the error. Restarting Apache "fixes" the problem. Has anyone else experianced the same issue? It appears to me that this is a php oci8 bug. (shouldn't a new connection be built if a persistant connection fails, and if not using persistant connections, shouldn't this be a non issue?) Thanks, Michael