Peter Moskovits wrote in this morning, to let us know of a White Paper on "Globalizing Oracle PHP Applications" that was published on OTN at the start of this year. This paper aims to give a quick introduction to some of the issue syou will face as an application developer when creating fully globalized applications in PHP and Oracle. However, it is not intended to be a complete guideline and several major issues, such as how to design an application that can render HTML pages suitable for bi-directional languages, are beyond the scope of this document, as they do not directly pertain to PHP and Oracle.

In this quick post on PHP Magazine today, the new white paper covering the globalization of Oracle applications is presented to the community. The paper is placed to show you, as a developer, some of the things that you will need to worry about when making this major move up.

[...] it is not intended to be a complete guideline and several major issues, such as how to design an application that can render HTML pages suitable for bi-directional languages, are beyond the scope of this document, as they do not directly pertain to PHP and Oracle.