Over the last few years, PHP has become increasingly popular in the enterprise space, both on account of its friendly licensing terms and its ease of use in building robust, secure applications. It's increasingly being used in conjunction with Oracle Database, the system of choice for large enterprises.
There's only one problem with this happy picture: setting up an Oracle/PHP/Apache/Linux (OPAL) development environment requires some manual steps, which often doesn't fit well in corporate IT environments used to automated simplicity. Online resources such as Oracle's PHP RPMs for Enterprise Linux and reference material such as the Underground PHP and Oracle Manual, Oracle's PHP FAQ Wiki, and various "getting started" guides help for some platforms, but the process still isn't as easy as clicking a bunch of buttons and letting an automated installer do the heavy lifting.
Fortunately, things are changing for the better. And one of the first harbingers of that change is a new release from Zend Technologies: Zend Server, a PHP stack for business-critical applications that runs on both Windows and Linux. It can be used to build Oracle-based applications out of the box. This new product provides a high-performance, enterprise-ready OPAL stack that allows corporate IT departments to add PHP middleware to their existing installations without breaking a sweat. For Oracle users, Zend Server is now recommended over the Zend Core for Oracle product.
This tutorial assumes you know at least a little bit about Linux, Oracle, and PHP. Or at least you know what they are. Or something. Oracle Express is Oracle’s free version of their database. It imposes some resources and functionality limitations, but for the purposing of learning and deploying smaller applications, it works fabulously. It’s also the easiest to install. So that’s what I’ll be demonstrating. I’m not going to talk to you about the advantages of Oracle, because I have a feeling that would be a waste of my time and yours.
This talk covers:
* Free Oracle tools
* OCI8 extension
* Connection management (including the new connection pooling feature)
* Improving performance
* XML
* Oracle resources
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