What’s New for PHP 5.3 OCI8 Extension
OCI8 extension for Oracle have been improved in PHP5.3 with 7 bugs fixed in addition to many improvements and new features mainly : Added Database Resident Connection Pooling (DRCP) and Fast Application Notification (FAN) support. Added support for Oracle External Authentication (not supported on Windows). Improve persistent connection handling of restarted DBs. Added SQLT_AFC (aka CHAR datatype) support to oci_bind_by_name Changed default value of oci8.default_prefetch from 10 to 100. Allow building (e.g from PECL) the PHP 5.3-based OCI8 code with PHP 4.3.9 onwards Provide separate extensions for Oracle 11g and 10g on Windows. Oracle support for PHP is already 12 years old since the php/fi 2.0, at that time the oracle.c and oracle.h where checked by Stig Sæther Bakken on April 1997. Download PHP 5.3 , For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available here , detailing the changes between 5.2 and 5.3 releases.
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What’s New for PHP 5.3 OCI8 Extension
