I Need to Ask an Oracle Oracle.

[Derek Broughton]

PleegWat wrote:

> Martin McCormick wrote:
>> What we will be doing is using php to query, getting
>> certain fields from the data base, modifying them with a script
>> of our making and then dumping them to yet another system,
>> access to which poses no particular problem so the issue is
>> finding a client in ubuntu that will have a good chance at
>> talking to the Pinnacle server.
> 
> There is a PHP module to connect to oracle databases. See
> 
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.oci8.php

You _still_ need the Oracle client.  Oracle has never made it possible to 
connect any other way.
-- 
derek