Where I could find Oracle and MSSQL module for PHP

Anon

In PHP3 binary for windows module for oracle and MSSQL was supported what was happen with this feature is it another soulution more advanced then before to achieve access to this database. Help me, please.

Anon

I presume you want to install Oracle and MS SQL 7 for PHP4. Visit http://php.weblogs.com/easywindows

There is an EXE installer that installs both extensions for PHP4. If you do not want to run the installer, you can open it as a ZIP file copy it to your extension directory.

Regards,John

Anon

I have used php.weblogs.com/easyinstaller, and yes, it installs beautifully and works. Except that I chose the Oracle8 option and now cannot get it to work. My php.ini looks like this:

extension_dir=C:\PHP


That's all it put in there; do I need to define the Oracle .dll to it somehow?

Anon

Hello Marty,

First a question -- do you mean that Oracle is not working, or PHP is not working?

I presume you mean oracle is not working; i hope there is an oracle guru who will answer your post because I don't have access to oracle in my current office.

I included the oracle DLLs in the easywindows installer because i thought it would be useful for others. The oracle dll's were compiled by the team at http://php4win.de/

I believe there is an alternative set of dll's compiled at http://download.swwwing.com/

You might also want to share with everyone what version of oracle client you are running etc.

Best of luck,
John
-- author - easywindows installer

Anon

Thanks for the tips John; I got it working shortly after I wrote this post; I was trying to accomplish too much with my php.ini; I was adding a bunch of other extensions into it that weren't loading..

After I simply added the line:

extension = php_oci8.dll

and rebooted, all was well. PHP has been remarkably simple, all in all, since we're coming from a strictly IIS4/StoryServer 4.2.6 implementation. Their ISAPI filter, iis4curl.dll, fails to load every so often, for no rhyme or reason, and of course they want many thousands of dollars for support!

My implementation is this:

Web server(s): PIII 500, 128MB, 18GB disk space, Windows 2000 in Active Directory native mode, IIS 5.0, Windows Media Services, latest version of PHP. Multiple web servers with directory replication and DNS round-robin for the cheapest failover without doing clustering or Windows Load Balancing Service.

Database server(s): Dual PIII 550 Xeons, 256MB, ~50GB disk space, Windows NT 4.0, Oracle 8.0.5

Thanks all!