PHPDeveloper.org http://www.phpdeveloper.org Up-to-the Minute PHP News, views and community en-us Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:32:57 -0500 30 <![CDATA[Christopher Jones' Blog: Oracle Instant Client 10.2.0.4 for Mac OS X Intel x86 is Available]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10029 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10029 Christopher Jones has posted about the latest Instant Client release for the Intel chips running OS X:

Hot off the press, Kuassi points out that Oracle Instant Client for Apple Mac OS X (Intel x86) is now available from the Instant Client page on OTN. It's the latest 10.2.0.4 patchset.

The 10.2.0.4 release of Instant Client for Windows 32bit and Linux x86 have also been released.

The Oracle Instant Client is a lightweight version of the standard Oracle functionality that's not only smaller but allows installation of an Oracle client without having to do the full Oracle install.

]]> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:50:50 -0500 <![CDATA[Christopher Jones' Blog: Temporary LOBS in PHP's OCI8 Extension. Instant Client.]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/9460 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/9460 Christopher Jones talks today on his blog about a bug he's just corrected and integrated into the release of the Oracle Instant Client that lets PHP correctly take advantage of the temporary LOBS functionality.

When PHP is done with the temporary LOB, it needs to tell Oracle to destroy it. If this isn't done, then the temporary LOB will hang around using DB space until the connection is closed. I just merged a fix worked on by Krishna Mohan and myself for bug 43497.

Example code is included showing two instances of its use - a normal use that frees the memory correctly and the other showing how to create the temporary lob to hold the data as needed.

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