Using ADOdb with PHP and Oracle: an advanced tutorial
15019Using ADOdb with PHP and Oracle: an advanced tutorialhttp://phplens.com/lens/adodb/docs-oracle.htmOracle is the most popular commercial database used with PHP. There are many ways of accessing Oracle databases in PHP. These include:PHP > Magazine ArticlesOct 12, 2006
PHP (which originally stood for Personal Home Page) was first written by Rasmus Lerdorf as a simple set of Perl scripts to track users of his Web pages. He soon had enquiries from other people and rewrote it as a scripting engine. He also added support for forms, thus forming PHP/FI. As its popularity grew, a core group of developers created an API for it and turned it into PHP3. By now PHP was being used in situations which were never envisaged, and so a complete rewrite of the script parser was undertaken (the Zend engine), creating PHP4, which was much faster than PHP3. PHP now stood for PHP Hypertext Processor, and was ready for the big time...
FindArticles Plug-In is designed to help your visitors quickly and easily find published articles on the topics of interest. It helps to find over than 5.5 million articles from more than 900 magazines and journals, dating from 1998 through the present. FindArticles even brings some print-only publications to the Web for the first time.
PHP is the market-leading dynamic language for producing modern Web applications. Its popularity for building content management and e-commerce systems stems from its portability, ease of use, and wide support for accessing database and enterprise data sources. IBM and Zend Technologies have partnered to deliver Zend Core for IBM?, which is the industry's only certified and fully supported PHP development and production environment for IBM data servers.
PHP runs on most free and commercial versions of Unix. It currently has limited support for Apache and Internet Information Server on Windows NT. I'm currently running PHP Version 3 (PHP3) under Linux as an integrated module for the Apache 1.3.6 Web server.
Considering that PHP3 is probably one of the leading plug-ins for Apache (the most popular Web server on the planet), it's almost embarrassing to call it a "hidden" gem, or to admit that I'm only now getting familiar with it.
Joining mailing list will entitle you
to receive occasional emails informing you of news and
updates to the site and any special offers that may be
of interest to you.