PHP and oracle

Anon

I need to connect PHP to an oracle database. We can presently access the oracle database using SQL*PLUS with a TNS connection(?!?). I could set up an ODBC connection, but this may require more work than necessary. I'd like to exploit the current connection (the TNS one) but I am not sure if this is possible or how to start.

Can anyone advise on this one?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

Anon

Hmmm, I think this is pretty easy. You don't need any ODBC or shhh, you should use PHP's OCI Interface, which must be compiled in.

Well I think everything you need is described here:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/yenigul20020122.php3

and here:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.oci8.php