For all of you Oracle heads out there that work with it on a daily basis, you know that, once you have it all set up, it's a breeze to work with - but, unfortunately, that's the part that gets serveral developers in trouble. In this article, they show you, step by step, how to install and test a PHP/Oracle connection to a linux-based Oracle server.

It's not a bad little article, but it only covers the basics really. I had hoped that it would have shown you a little bit about installing Oracle (or at least some "helpful hints" kinds of things). Oracle is a great database, if you can get it installed. Fortunately, once you have it installed and working, getting information to and from it is a breeze. There are several OCI* functions that make your life a whole lot easier.

I use Oracle pretty much every day at work, and it makes a great industrial-strength database, but it's not for everyone. The commit/rollback functions have saved my life more than once, too....