On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, John Hayward wrote:

: php has some OCI8 functions which allow access to an oracle database
: (which can be remote).  It requires php to be built with oracle client
: libraries

Which will not happen on *BSD's, since OCI8 is a native code interface, and
the closest possible match is the Linux distribution of Oracle.  There
exists no *BSD distribution of Oracle for which you can get the necessary
OCI libraries.  If you want to run PHP against OCI8, you'll need to compile
PHP *for* Linux (to run under emulation) with the Linux Oracle libraries.

If you don't want also to compile Apache for Linux (which you'd have to do
for PHP+Oracle as an Apache module), you can instead make use of the
external "php" program that PHP builds, as a CGI handler for .php files.
This will run the "php" program, instead of invoking mod_php, which may only
be a minor overhead increase depending on your situation.

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