Re: Oracle support in PHP?

On Nov 21, 2007, at 21:01, John Korchok wrote:

I was recently required to start connecting to Oracle databases for some of the pages I serve. I was wondering if we ever might see an -oci8 variant that installs the Oracle library for php4/php5?

I'd be happy to add it to php5 if you'll tell me how to build php5 with oracle support. But I imagine we'd first need a port for the oracle libraries. "port search oracle" and "port search oci" don't return any results. Is the oracle software even freely available? I thought it was commercial. I see there's a free "instantclient" but they only have PowerPC Mac binaries at this time?