Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:33:31 +0100 From: Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch> To: Al Arzaga <aarzaga@gelbergroup.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: access oracle from php (mod_php4) Message-ID: <422444FB.3060301@supsi.ch> In-Reply-To: <5D04AA663E554C4AAAEB1C300E32CE2E013F12D2@gelbermail.GELBERGROUP.COM> References: <5D04AA663E554C4AAAEB1C300E32CE2E013F12D2@gelbermail.GELBERGROUP.COM>
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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
>
>
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