There are two new articles over on the Oracle Technology Network dealing with calling stored procedures and performing transactions via PHP.

From Calling Oracle Stored Procedures with PHP: The PHP OCI8 extension provides support for calling stored procedures, allowing you to bind parameters to a procedure statement in the same way as you would to a normal SQL statement, as well as access to result cursors and Oracle collections. This HowTo provides examples of common operations with stored procedures.

From Performing Transactions with Oracle and PHP: This "Oracle+PHP Cookbook" HowTo explains the need for transactions and examines how to use Oracle's transaction services through PHP's OCI extension, highlighting some of the potential "gotchas" along the way.

Both new articles provide some great information on two of the more powerful aspects of Oracle, and give some good code with plenty of explaination to help you understand every step of the way...