From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 1 10:33:51 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6043116A4D3 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:33:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.dti.supsi.ch (mail.dti.supsi.ch [193.5.153.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2E7043D58 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:33:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch) Received: from [193.5.152.27] (pcm2027.dti.supsi.ch [193.5.152.27]) by mail.dti.supsi.ch (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j21AXjq13492; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 11:33:45 +0100 Message-ID: <422444FB.3060301@supsi.ch> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:33:31 +0100 From: Roberto Nunnari User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Al Arzaga References: <5D04AA663E554C4AAAEB1C300E32CE2E013F12D2@gelbermail.GELBERGROUP.COM> In-Reply-To: <5D04AA663E554C4AAAEB1C300E32CE2E013F12D2@gelbermail.GELBERGROUP.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: access oracle from php (mod_php4) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:33:51 -0000 Hi Al. It wasn't me who wrote that.. but Alex. My solution was much easier: use the ports: databases/php4-oracle it is not the new oci8 but the old oracle API.. but that's enough for my needs. Best regards. Al Arzaga wrote: > Roberto, > > Can you elaborate on how you were able to do this? Where exactly were you > able to find the Oracle drivers? I contacted EasySoft's support guys to > try and get this working and as much as they tried, they ultimately gave up. > But at no time did we ever go find Oracle libraries from their website. I'm > very curious to know in more detail how you ran the install. > > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:31:14PM +0100, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > > >>I'm using a client app to access an oracle 8i database myself. I'm >>using unixODBC on freebsd which the oracle 9i libraries from the oracle >>website and the oracle driver from www.easysoft.com which allows >>unixodbc apps to use the oracle driver. I'm not using mod_php4, but I'm >>pretty sure it can use unixodbc once that's setup. There is allow a >>native oracle driver for php, but I don't know anything about it. > > >>My app -> unixODBC -> EasySoft Oracle driver -> Oracle libs -> Oracle >>server > > -- Roberto Nunnari -software engineer- mailto:roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana Dipartimento Tecnologie Innovative http://www.dti.supsi.ch SUPSI-DTI Via Cantonale tel: +41-91-6108561 6928 Manno """ fax: +41-91-6108570 Switzerland (o o) =======================oOO==(_)==OOo========================