[PHP] PHP equivalent for Oracle ORA_FFI

We have a data load program written in Oracle Reports 2.5 (yes, I know, it wasn't me!). This uses ORA_FFI to interface with a .dll to validate and reformat addresses. I would like to perform the same interface in PHP if possible, without needing to do any development work on or around the .dll.

[PHP] OCIExecute hangs with invalid sql statement

The following code works fine if passed a valid sql statement in $sql, but if not it hangs. $this-conn=OCIPLogon($orauser,$orapwd,$tns) or die (Could not log on to database); $this-stmnt = OCIParse($this-conn, $sql) or die (Could not initialize database query (parse)); $result =

[PHP] Wierd error messages

Today my php 4/Apache/NT 4/Oracle 8i setup has started misbehaving. First sign was a huge slowing down in the delivery of pages. Then Apache crashed. I couldn't find anything interesting in the apache error log, but in the php error log there are hundreds of messages like the ones below. Can

Re: [PHP] Why is it dangerous to have register_globals on?

Now I understand! I hadn't twigged to the danger of _internal_ variables getting overwritten by bogus get/post variables. Thanks to you all. Euan Rasmus Lerdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Actually it's not dangerous per se. However if