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PHP OCI8 1.4.3 is Available on PECL
Posted: August 9th, 2010, 6:03pm MDT by Christopher Jones
I've just posted the PHP OCI8 1.4.2 and OCI8 1.4.3 extensions on PECL. The change notes are here. PHP OCI8 is the recommended database driver for using Oracle Database in the PHP scripting language. Why the two releases so close... -
PHP TestFest 2010 - Time to Get Involved
Posted: May 31st, 2010, 10:37am MDT by Christopher Jones
Following a great 2009, the PHP community is organizing a repeat TestFest for 2010. São Paulo, Brazil kicked off the season on May 29th and their results are already up on the results page. The TestFest 2010 wiki page contains... -
NetBeans PHP Development Blog and User Praise
Posted: May 14th, 2010, 12:30am MDT by Christopher Jones
Are you not using the Netbeans IDE for your PHP development? My new colleague Petr Pisl recently sent me email and mentiond there is a NetBeans PHP team blog and a page of great feedback on NetBeans PHP support.... -
"Enterprise Architectures for Drupal" at DrupalCon
Posted: April 19th, 2010, 3:44pm MDT by Christopher Jones
Scott Mattoon from Oracle will be presenting Enterprise Architecture for Drupal early tomorrow at DrupalCon. Scott is a long time member of the Drupal community. He recently joined Oracle via the Sun acquisition - in case you're worried, he tells... -
Reducing Oracle LOB Memory Use in PHP, or Paul's Lesson Applied to Oracle
Posted: March 19th, 2010, 6:38pm MDT by Christopher Jones
Paul Reinheimer's PHP memory pro tip shows how re-assigning a value to a variable doesn't release the original value until the new data is ready. With large data lengths, this unnecessarily increases the peak memory usage of the application. In... -
New PHP Releases: 5.2.13 and 5.3.2 RC3
Posted: February 26th, 2010, 10:16am MST by Christopher Jones
PHP 5.2.13 has been released. The announcement is here and software is on the downloads page. At the same time, PHP 5.3.2 RC3 is available for testing, see [news.php.net] There are only a few days before the final PHP... -
The ConFoo.ca "Web Techno" conference is coming soon
Posted: January 19th, 2010, 1:17pm MST by Christopher Jones
Francis Begin reminded me that Québec's premiere (can I say that?) open source conference is coming sooner than you think: ConFoo.ca is styled as a "Web Techno" conference "with over 130 presentations in 8 rooms". It takes place in March,... -
The ConFoo.ca "Web Techno" conference is coming soon
Posted: January 19th, 2010, 1:17pm MST by Christopher Jones
Francis Begin reminded me that Québec's premiere (can I say that?) open source conference is coming sooner than you think: ConFoo.ca is styled as a "Web Techno" conference "with over 130 presentations in 8 rooms". It takes place in March,... -
Tracing PHP Oracle Applications, part 1
Posted: January 19th, 2010, 12:14pm MST by Christopher Jones
(This was an article I wrote for a newsletter). In December 2009, PHP reached the number three position in the TIOBE language index. Analysts are recommending PHP be considered in your technology portfolio. Oracle Enterprise Linux users are well placed... -
Tracing PHP Oracle Applications, part 1
Posted: January 19th, 2010, 12:14pm MST by Christopher Jones
(This was an article I wrote for a newsletter). In December 2009, PHP reached the number three position in the TIOBE language index. Analysts are recommending PHP be considered in your technology portfolio. Oracle Enterprise Linux users are well placed... -
Zend Server and Oracle Enterprise Linux
Posted: November 4th, 2009, 1:13pm MST by Christopher Jones
You can now use Oracle's free or paid Linux package channels to install Zend Server. In three links: The technical details Wim Coekaerts's blog gives the background The press release... -
And Now to ZendCon 2009!
Posted: October 19th, 2009, 2:38pm MDT by Christopher Jones
Phew! The Oracle OpenWorld conference is: wrapped up. Check me out on video. Now onto ZendCon down at the other end of Silicon Valley. My ZendCon talk is on Tuesday afternoon. In what seems just the last few weeks a... -
PHP OCI8 1.4.0 Alpha is now available
Posted: October 6th, 2009, 11:27pm MDT by Christopher Jones
I just released an Alpha version of PECL OCI8 1.4 on [pecl.php.net] The code is also merged to what will eventually be the PHP 5.3.2 and PHP 6.0 releases. Documentation will appear on [www.php.net] in the next few days, if... -
New Article "Using PHP with Oracle HTTP Server 11g"
Posted: September 14th, 2009, 2:13pm MDT by Christopher Jones
Our Application Server team have put together a new article on installing PHP to use with the latest version of "Oracle HTTP Server" from our Fusion Middleware suite. The article is at: [www.oracle.com] -
Come to PHP Code|Works - you'll regret missing it
Posted: September 11th, 2009, 12:11pm MDT by Christopher Jones
Hey there! Kuassi Mensah and I will be presenting at the upcoming PHP Code|Works conference tour, which kicks off later this month. Code|Works is the latest generation of conference from the folk who, amongst other things, present the excellent PHP|Tek... -
New Look for the Underground PHP & Oracle Manual
Posted: July 13th, 2009, 1:15pm MDT by Christopher Jones
Thanks to the Oracle Technology Network design team our very popular, free Underground PHP & Oracle Manual has had a makeover and gained a snazzy new front cover. Farewell to the photo of the underground car park door that used... -
Inserting and Updating Oracle XMLType columns in PHP
Posted: July 10th, 2009, 5:56pm MDT by Christopher Jones
Today a reader mailed me about manipulating XMLType columns when the data is longer than the 4K limit that character-type handling imposes. My free book (see sidebar) has examples of how to do this using CLOB handling in PHP. I... -
Yes, PHP 5.3 is here. What does that mean?
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 1:06pm MDT by Christopher Jones
Yesterday PHP 5.3 was released. It can be downloaded from the PHP site. This release has been the product of combined efforts from all areas of the community. While core PHP language developers may have the public profile of soccer... -
PHP 5.3 is days away; development merge restrictions are in place
Posted: June 25th, 2009, 3:35pm MDT by Christopher Jones
PHP 5.3 is currently due to go production on Tuesday 30th June 2009. The release managers are working hard to get all the final pieces in place. In the PHP core development community there has been a tiny bit of... -
Keeping Web Applications Lean and Mean at Dutch PHP Conference
Posted: June 8th, 2009, 12:59pm MDT by Christopher Jones
I'm really looking forward to the Dutch PHP conference this week. Robert Brouwer from Oracle Netherlands is talking on Friday at 11:45 about Keeping Web Applications Lean and Mean. The need for monitoring is something that comes up all the... -
There are PHP Jobs out there...
Posted: June 5th, 2009, 1:36pm MDT by Christopher Jones
Conference organizers tell me business use-case studies don't do well. Last night's San Francisco PHP Meetup would have proved them wrong. A big crowd was paying very close attention and asking lots of questions to the SonicLiving crew, whose talk... -
PHP 5.3 Release Candidate 2 is available
Posted: May 7th, 2009, 11:55am MDT by Christopher Jones
PHP 5.3 is approaching the pointy end of development and it's worth me blogging so awareness and testing increases before general release. The second release candidate for PHP 5.3 has been announced. Source code is [downloads.php.net] Windows binaries are at... -
Singapore PHP Meeting on 6th May is at Oracle
Posted: April 30th, 2009, 12:21pm MDT by Christopher Jones
Blair Layton, Senior Manager of Oracle's APAC Developer Program is talking at the next Singapore PHP meeting on: • Oracle Database Fundamentals for PHP Developers • Using SQL Developer with MySQL and Oracle • Deploying Oracle Database to the Amazon...