I always meant to let my php scripts on my Ubuntu server access Oracle databases, thus quite possibly making it into a Linux, Apache, Oracle and PHP server. I do wonder how you would smoothly pronounce the resulting acronym.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I often have the feeling that open source systems and commercial databases are\u00a0intentionally\u00a0made to not play well together. Despite myself, I recently found\u00a0a nice article on how to install Oracle 11g instant client and building php with support for OCI.<\/p>\n
The relatively simple instructions are for Ubuntu 10.04 but seems to work quite nicely on my Ubuntu 12.04 server. With any luck I’ll be pulling all sorts of interesting data from Oracle 11g using PHP before the end of the day.<\/p>\n
PHPOracle – Community Ubuntu Documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ps: Make sure you get the 64-bit version of the Oracle instant client if installing on a 64-bit system \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I always meant to let my php scripts on my Ubuntu server access Oracle databases, thus quite possibly making it into a Linux, Apache, Oracle and PHP server. I do wonder how you would smoothly pronounce the resulting acronym. Anyway, … Continue reading