PHP Development with Oracle

By Darun
 Introduction to Oracle

• Oracle Database - scalability, reliability and

features
• Leading database and is available on many
platforms.
Databases and Instances
• An Oracle database stores and retrieves data.

• Each database consists of one or more data files

• Oracle database server consists of an Oracle

database and an Oracle instance.

• Server is started, a shared memory region called the

system global area (SGA) is allocated and the Oracle
background processes are started.

• The combination of the background processes and

SGA is called an Oracle instance.
 Tablespaces
• Tablespaces are the logical units of data storage
made up of one or more datafiles.

• Tablespaces are often created for individual

applications because tablespaces can be
conveniently managed.

• Users are assigned a default tablespace that holds

all the data the users creates.

• A database is made up of default and DBAcreated

tablespaces.
 Schemas and Users
• A schema is a collection of database objects such as
tables and indexes.

• A schema is owned by a database user and has the

same name as that user.

• Once you have installed PHP and want to write

scripts that interact with Oracle, you need to connect
as the owner of the schema that contains the objects
you want to interact with.

• For example, to connect to the HR schema, you

would use the username hr in PHP’s connection
string.
 Schemas and Users
• Per machine may have more than one database,
typically a single Oracle database contains multiple
schemas.

• Multiple applications can use the same database without

any conflict by using different schemas.

• Instead of using a CREATE DATABASE command for new

applications, use the CREATE USER command to create a
new schema in the database.

• In Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (known as

“Oracle Database XE”) there is a wizard to create new
users in the Oracle Application Express management
console.
 Introduction to PHP

• PHP is a interpreted scripting language commonly used for

web applications.

• PHP - open source and free; has a BSD-style license, making it

corporation-friendly.

• PHP is perfect for rapidly developing applications both big and

small, and is great for creating Web 2.0 applications.

• It runs on many platforms and language is dynamically typed

and easy to use.
 About PHP
• PHP is typically installed as an Apache module, or
run by the web server using FastCGI.

• It includes the PHP OCI8 extension and is linked

with the Oracle Client Libraries, enabling Oracle
Database access.

• When a user enters the URL of a PHP script

(hello.php) in their browser.
 About PHP
• Hello.php
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