In a new pointer from PHP Magazine today, there's information about an article over on the Oracle Technology Network about Optimizing PHP and Oracle.

In this first installment of the DeployPHP Series on OTN, get a checklist for developing and deploying powerful, scalable PHP applications on Oracle. As a PHP developer, you know that the database is probably the most important component with which you will be interacting. In this first installment in the DeployPHP Series, John Lim discusses this checklist for developing and deploying powerful and scalable PHP applications on Oracle (He assumes that you have some knowledge of PHP and SQL, but not much of Oracle):

• Choose the right extension API
• Know when to fetch and hint
• Be smart about binding
• Use a class library
• Learn the art of creating optimizer hints and indexes
• Steward your data and manage your business logic
• Keep in touch with "mission control"

If you're new to Oracle, but not new to PHP (and SQL interfaces), you should find this guide quite helpful for getting into the world that Oracle built. If not, you might look elsewhere for some other, more introductory tutorials...