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Re: [PHP3] A simple documetation From: Richard Lynch (richard <email protected>)
Date: 05/03/00

In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005031726050.10737-100000 <email protected>>,
andrej.trobentar <email protected> (Andrej Trobentar) wrote:

> I'm new to PHP and also not very exiprianced in databases (Oracle 8i).I
> have read the php manual, but the source code listed in there is too hard
> to understand for me.Is there a manual "out there" that descibes the
> connections to databases and functions in a very basic way?For example :
> To get the text from a table called test look at this sample code...
> So very basic instructions.

There's an Oracle-PHP mailing list somewhere (I'm not an Oracle user) that
might be a more focused forum.

Meanwhile, there's an excellent MySQL/PHP tutorial online linked from
http://php.net and most of the ideas are the same, even if the functions
are a little bit different.

Oracle has a two-phase way of submitting queries using the "bind" and
"exec" (?) functions: As near as I can understand it, if you were
submitting very similar, yet complex, queries over and over, these
functions would be good to use since the queries would be compiled once
using the "bind" function, so then you'd save on the parsing and
compiling of the SQL in the complex query... But since you're probably
not doing that, it seems to me the simpler "query" function that just
submits and executes the query would make a lot more sense anyway... Oh
well.

Other than that, and the fact that Oracle has a bizillion more functions
than MySQL, the differences are pretty minor: A newbie will seldom do
anything funky enough to need any of the Oracle extras.

Sorry I rambled on a bit. Anyway, run through the MySQL tutorial and just
substitute the closest-named function (or compare their descriptions)
Oracle function you can find -- you'll probably be all set.

Be careful to note the "buzzwords". Things like "result identifier" and
"link identifier" are distinct, and have meaning: Figure out what they
really mean (they ain't complex) or resort to matching them up like
GerAnimals if they are too obtuse. 

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