PHP and Oracle

PHP
As some people may have noticed, Zend Core for Oracle went into a public beta stage a couple of days ago. This free product is excellent news for anybody using PHP and Oracle together, since the OCI8 extension was vastly improved to bring it on par with (and sometimes better than) other database extensions, both in terms of stability and performance.

It's actually good news even for people who won't be using Zend Core - since like with any other fixes made to PHP in the course of the work on Core (and in general), these will be committed to the PHP CVS as soon as they're tested (probably a couple of days' time).
This entry was posted by Zeev Suraski on Wednesday, August 31. 2005 at 08:10. and is filed under PHP. The author does not allow comments to this entry

Trackbacks

Trackback specific URI for this entry

    No Trackbacks

Comments

Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

  1. Ivo Jansch says:
    #1 2005-08-31 10:02

    Good job Zend!

    for those of you working with Oracle and PHP: a while ago Oracle OTN launched a PHP/Oracle technology center: http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/php/index.html

  2. Derick says:
    #2 2005-08-31 10:09

    Why wasn't this developed in PHP CVS for peer review?

  3. Zeev says:
    #2.1 2005-08-31 11:07

    Because given the complexity and scope of the changes, we didn't think it made sense. There was plenty of peer review within the group that was working on it, very similar to the way Unicode support was developed.

  4. Derick says:
    #2.1.1 2005-08-31 17:47

    It still would have made more sense to get it in the core, before announcing and releasing this. Besides this, the Zend Core stuff does change PHP's version number strings?

  5. Zeev says:
    #2.1.1.1 2005-08-31 21:03

    I'm not sure if it would have made more sense, but it would have been equally sensible. It just turned out that the code review process for that code wasn't yet fully completed on one hand, while the beta deadline arrived on the other hand.

    Contrary to popular belief, there's no conspiracy here to get fixes into Zend Core before they arrive to PHP. Zend Core is PHP, and like I said, any fixes made to it in the course of QA will be committed to PHP as well. Typically (as was the case in all of the other changes, and many of the OCI changes too) it happens immediately, this time, it didn't, because of the nature&scope of the changes.

    Zend Core doesn't change the PHP version string, but it does add itself to the X-Powered-By line (in addition to PHP).

  6. Lars says:
    #3 2005-08-31 11:55

    We are working with Oracle and php and are really looking forward to this.
    We hope especially for an easy ( and reproducable ) installation. Getting php to work with oracle now is quite
    time-consuming.
    Thanks for the effort.


The author does not allow comments to this entry