Re: [PHP-DB] problems connecting to remote oracle database From: Anthony Carlos (anthony <email protected>)
Date: 07/02/01

Phil,

Perhaps I'm being nit-picky, but shouldn't it be OCILogon("$user",
"$PASSWORD", "$connect_string"); ?

Anthony

> From: phil <email protected>
> Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 09:39:11 -0700
> To: php-db <email protected>
> Subject: [PHP-DB] problems connecting to remote oracle database
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm having difficulties getting php4 to connect to a remote oracle
> database.
>
> I have an entry in tnsnames.ora, along the lines of
>
> shorthostname = (etc, etc)
>
> and I can use "sqlplus user/name <email protected>" to connect just fine, as
> a regular user. Even without ORACLE_SID set, since I have it set in
> tnsnames.ora for that entry
>
> But when I try
> ocilogin("user","name","shorthostname");
>
> on a php page, I get a printout of oracle error 01017: authentication
> failed.
> The listener log on that oracle machine confirms that I am actually
> attempting to connect. But no details on what's going wrong.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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