Re: [SM-USERS] Re: Modifying SquirrelMail v1.4.2 to use Oracle -What needs to be done?

[Lee B. <lc...@co...>]

Rafael Martinez Guerrero said:
> We were using oracle with Squirrelmail until january but we are using
> postgreSQL now for saving addressbook/userprefs and sessions (better
> speed and less resources).
>
> I remember we had some problems with apache/php and with SM when using
> oracle. Supposing that you have a working installation of apache/PHP
> w/oracle support, you need to define some env variables in apache


Thanks for the information.

I've been running under the assumption that with SquirrelMail using PEAR I
did not need to build PHP with Oracle support enabled. I do know that
without having Oracle support compiled in there are Oracle specific
commands that would not be available, but looking at the PHP/PEAR
documentation I did not get the impression that I had to have Oracle
support enabled for simple connection and query support.

So would it be correct for me to now assume that to have any hope of
connecting to an Oracle database in any way I must have the Oracle
libraries installed and Oracle support compiled in?

And be gentle to the person asking for what must sound like a boneheaded
question. :)

     Lee

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