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Technical Article: Oracle Symfony in PHP Minor Oracle Database 11g and the Symfony Web PHP Framework can make beautiful music together, as illustrated by this simple sample app. posted Jul 10, 2008 PHP OCI8 1.3.3 is "Production" Chris Jones reports that the latest branch of PHP's OCI8 extension has gone Production on PECL. posted Jul 2, 2008 Technical White Paper: OCI Development Tips and Techniques Get guidelines and pointers for building efficient drivers for accessing the Oracle Database using key technologies such as OCI. posted May 28, 2008 Presentation: Web Scale PHP Database Connection Management See Chris Jones' PHP|Tek 2008 preso about how to meet "Web-scale" requirements for PHP apps using OCi8, Database Resident Connection Pooling, and Fast Application Notification. posted May 23, 2008 Podcast: Performance Tuning for PHP with Oracle Databases (from Zend) Hear Oracle's Chris Jones present on this topic; recorded at ZendCon 2007. posted May 7, 2008 Technical White Paper: PHP Scalability and High Availability This Tech White Paper overviews new extensions to OCI8 that allow PHP apps to take advantage of Database Resident Connection Pooling and Fast Application Notification features in Oracle Database. posted Apr 24, 2008

Installation Guides
	Installing Oracle Database 11g and Zend Core for Oracle
	Installing Oracle Database 10g Express Edition and Zend Core for Oracle
	Installing Apache, PHP, JDeveloper, and the PHP Extension on Linux
	Installing PHP and the Oracle 10g Instant Client for Linux and Windows
	Installing Oracle, PHP, and Apache on Linux
	Installing Oracle, PHP, and Apache on Windows 2000/XP
	Set Up Oracle Database 10g and PHP on Mac OS X

Technical White Papers & Presentations
	White Paper: PHP Scalability and High Availability: DRCP and Fast Application Notification		Presentation: What Oracle Database 11g Brings to PHP (Conference PHP Quebec 2008)
	White Paper: OCI Development Tips and Techniques		Presentation: Scale Your PHP Application to Tens of Thousands of Connections (Oracle OpenWorld 2007)
	Presentation: Web Scale PHP Database Connection Management (PHP | Tek 2008)		Presentation: The Way to the Web with PHP and Oracle Database (Oracle OpenWorld 2007)

Oracle+PHP Cookbook Recipes
	Creating an Ajax Process Using PHP
	Building a Locator with ZIP Data
	Creating Oracle-Powered SOAP Services in PHP
	Online PayPal Payments with PHP
	Adding Google-like Search Operators to Simple Search Boxes
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Sample Book Chapters
	Oracle Database 10g Express Edition PHP Web Programming from Oracle Press
	Learning PHP5 from O'Reilly & Associates
	PHP Cookbook from O'Reilly & Associates
	PHP Programming from O'Reilly & Associates