Like so many before me, I now wish to add Oracle access functions to my working Apache/PHP/MySQL server(s). I do not need the Oracle DB running on any machine; The customer supplies this. All I need is to be a client and connect over the network.
After much research, I find most say something like "You must download all those Oracle files from OTN, yes thats right, all 1Gig plus of them so that PHP can bring in the few hundred K or so of files it really needs."
If I were delivering two rocks to my father, I would not send a dump truck full of rocks, dump it all on his lawn and say pick two and then say "sorry for the mess."
I wonder how much disk space those files consume after un-packing?
Friends, Romans, countrymen, this is nuts!!
There has got to be a better way.
What I am hoping to find is someone who has seperated the Oracle client files in such a way as to appease PHP's client needs and be a much smaller file to download and install.
What say you PHP folks?
John
After much research, I find most say something like "You must download all those Oracle files from OTN, yes thats right, all 1Gig plus of them so that PHP can bring in the few hundred K or so of files it really needs."
If I were delivering two rocks to my father, I would not send a dump truck full of rocks, dump it all on his lawn and say pick two and then say "sorry for the mess."
I wonder how much disk space those files consume after un-packing?
Friends, Romans, countrymen, this is nuts!!
There has got to be a better way.
What I am hoping to find is someone who has seperated the Oracle client files in such a way as to appease PHP's client needs and be a much smaller file to download and install.
What say you PHP folks?
John