I Need to Ask an Oracle Oracle.

[Bruce Ferrell]

NoOp wrote:
> On 08/04/2009 05:18 PM, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Oracle client
> 
> No clue, but this shows some options:
> 
> <http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantclient/htdocs/linuxsoft.html>
> Would any of these suffice?
> <http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantclient/htdocs/linuxsoft.html>

You have to recompile PHP with this flag (among others):

   --with-oci8-instant-client

Oh... Install the instant client first.  :)

You'll want to use the same version of php as the one packaged for the
distro.  There will probably be a number of development packages you'll
need to install to make it match up to the packaged php.  It's not a
terrible task, but not small.

In part, it's why I usually build my own LAMP stack.  I'm in control and
I know exactly what goes into it... but I also have to maintain it.  So
I only do the parts I need to now.  If you look at the README in the php
sources it will usually tell you how to fit it to an existing apache
using apxs.