Using the ADOdb library with Oracle and PHP | Database Journal

Using the ADOdb library with Oracle and PHP

Oct 23, 2008
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[From PHP Builder]

Last week we discussed the use of the OCI8 extension and connection methods for using ADOdb to connect to an Oracle database. This week we’ll delve further into the ADOdb library and will disect some example code to get you up to speed!

To connect to the database, the function ADONewConnection($Driver) is used. Although similar to OCI8, ADOdb uses a different type of connection process.

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