Hi everyone,
Im new in PHP and Im planning to use PHP with Oracle 8. Is there any problem with this mix???
Is it good?? fast???
If you could, give me an opinion ok??
Thanks.
For small databases you don't realy need such a expensive database. Alternative: mysql,postgres, interbase,...Sybase 11.0.3 for linux ( all 0$)
For PHP & Oracle : The DB is the bottleneck, but for most projects fast enough on modern computers.
.. Last week i've run a benchmark on a simple PHP script against a simple JAVA-Servlet. The PHP ran twice as fast the servlet. The relation grows with more concurrency for the advantage of PHP.
Servlets are more powerful for complex datastructures and systems.
Hi
The best combination is php with MySql especially in linux. The most important issue is Oracle is a commercial Product where as MySQL is freely available. Even you can use MySQL as a database for the most complex database designs also. You can get any type help the mySQL Official Site.
The fact is that I have to use the Oracle database with PHP.
Im developing a system to a hospital and I need to know if there is any big trouble using Oracle with PHP. Do I have to install any new library??
I've spend only one week with installing Oracle and PHP. But with success 🙂 Not working.
Compiling PHP with the options --with-oracle and --with-oci8 was simple. But you need an Oracle-Client (or complete db-Server) on your webserver. Many troubles are awaiting the configurator: The Oracle-Installer (8i) crashed down while installing and so on.. The problem is hard, because Oracle must link against older glibc versions. Oracle is certified only for few Linux-distributions. On Oracle-Technet-discussion forum there are lot of tips. For Redhat 7.0 you have to hide the new glibc and copy an old glibc into the directories. And then reconfigure the dirs.
Good Luck Ingo
