Archive for July, 2007

PHP RPMs for Oracle

Oracle have just released a set of PHP RPMs for Oracle which include OCI8 and Oracle PDO driver, as well as many other PHP extensions. I think this is great, even it’s for development testing only and not supported by Oracle. The RPMs are based on PHP 5.2.3, according to the blog post by Alison Holloway from Oracle . RPMs can be downloaded from http://oss.oracle.com/projects/php /, to install the PHP OCI8 you will need to install the Oracle’s free Instant Client Basic package and PHP’s php-pdo package : 1- as root run : rpm -ivh php-common-5.2.3-1.i386.rpm php-cli-5.2.3-1.i386.rpm php-5.2.3-1.i386.rpm 2- Download oracle-instantclient-basic-10.2.0.3-1.i386.rpm and install it rpm -ivh oracle-instantclient-basic-10.2.0.3-1.i386.rpm 3- Install PHP’s PDO extension : rpm -ivh php-pdo-5.2.3-1.i386.rpm 4- Install PHP’s Oracle OCI8 and PDO_OCI extensions : rpm -ivh php-oci8-5.2.3-1.i386.rpm

Firefox Companion for eBay and Launch Party Wednesday

Firefox Companion for eBay is an official Firefox extension developed by Mozilla and eBay to provide a new fast and safe online auction experience. The new eBay companion was officially launched yesterday in London in a small party reserved for about 50 guests. The aims of Firefox Companion for eBay is to help eBay users to never miss a bid, Stay up-to-date, and provides a safer browsing experience. The Firefox page of the extension is now called “mozilla Firefox eBay-edition”, and there is a similar page on eBay from where you can download and install the extension. Keep an eye on your eBay trading whereever you are on the web when you install the Mozilla Firefox eBay-Edition. I’s a free tool built with eBay users in mind that will help you get more out of your buying and selling.

Get Your Feedburner PRO for FREE

Well, here is a first good news after Google have acquired Feedburner : since today PRO features are available to everyone for FREE. This include the stats pro and the MyBrand feature. I think it’s a great move today for blogger to adopt Feedburner, if you are not already using it. This will not only reduce server resources consumed by your servers but will provide you a set of functionalities to make maximum profit from your RSS subscriptions. I was waiting for the PRO brand feature because I have more 20 blogs to syndicate and fees will pay me another more robust server. So now that the feature is free I just sent email as indicated in the website and waiting until someone get in touch to enable it. It will make our RSS served from http://feeds.phpmagazine.net instead of http://feeds.feedburner.com. I’m not sure how the Stats PRO will help me, but I’ll give it a try and we’ll see what Site Stats can add.