Oracle announced on Wednesday the enhancement and preview release of an upgraded Oracle Call Interface (OCI8) driver for PHP. The enhanced driver, OCI8, allows for server-side connection pooling ...

Existing PHP applications will be able to take advantage of the new connection pooling without changing any code. John Deeb, senior director of product management, Oracle, said "OCI8 gives the ...

The open-source Oracle Call Interface 8 driver repairs a flaw that led to PHP-based Web apps overwhelming Oracle databases with requests ...