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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 PHP PECL OCI8 1.3.2 Beta Now Available Read Chris Jones' blog post about PECL OCI8 1.3.2 Beta, the latest release of PHP's OCI8 extension with support for Connection Pooling and Fast Application Notification. posted Apr 22, 2008 Help Improve PHP! Participate in TestFest, a community event designed to help improve the test suite for PHP. Any PHP User Group can join in! posted Apr 3, 2008 Join the Oracle+PHP Users Group on Oracle Mix Using PHP in conjunction with Oracle Database, and want to share/exchange info with other users? This is the social networking group for you. posted Mar 21, 2008 Presentation: What Oracle Database 11g Brings to PHP This presentation from Conference PHP Quebec 2008 offers an introduction to PHP-friendly features in Oracle Database 11g posted Mar 14, 2008

Installation Guides
	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
	OTN Installfest Scripts (.txt format):   ·Zend Core for Oracle, Apache, PHP5, Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.2, and JDeveloper PHP Extension on RHEL4   · Oracle 10g Release 2, Apache, and PHP5 on RHEL4   · Oracle 10g, Apache, PHP4, and Oracle JDeveloper/PHP Extension on RHEL4   · Oracle 10g, Apache, PHP5, and Oracle JDeveloper/PHP Extension on RHEL4   · Oracle 10g, Apache, PHP4, and Oracle JDeveloper/PHP Extension on SLES9   · Oracle 10g, Apache, PHP5, and Oracle JDeveloper/PHP Extension on SLES9

Oracle Develop 2007 - PHP Presentations
	Scale Your PHP Application to Tens of Thousands of Connections
	The Way to the Web with PHP and Oracle Database

Recent 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