Re: Zend Core for Oracle vs. Zend Core (php

From: Mladen Gogala <gogala_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:48:56 GMT
Message-Id: <pan.2006.01.05.18.48.54.825497@sbcglobal.net>

On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:11:49 +0000, Andy Hassall wrote:

> On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:23:43 GMT, netcomradeNSPAM_at_bookexchange.net (NetComrade)
> wrote:
>

>>Does anyone know what additional benefits Zend Core for Oracle does?

>
> The main benefit I could see when the beta was first announced was that it
> comes with a newer version of the PHP OCI8 extension - which is mostly bugfixes
> - but that's available separately via PECL [1], it's still beta, and is being
> released with the core PHP distribution once it's stable anyway.
>
> Hadn't realised Core had gone GA so downloaded and installed the Windows
> version. First thing I noticed is it breaks one of PHP's own installation
> guidelines - which is not to put the PHP DLLs in the Windows system directory.
>
> [1] http://pecl.php.net/package/oci8

One nice thing about OCI8 is that it will support array interface when it becomes a production. Array interface is already in CVS. DBD::Oracle does not support it.

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