OS & Oracle

Compiling from source is not an productive way to install software, the binary distribution will cease a lot of trouble when installing. It will be perfect will one distribution vendor bundle all of the necessary development software together and make the common configuration and optimization, and make the management easy to combine some management tools.

Zend Core for Oracle come out! "Zend Core is a Certified PHP distribution that includes a stable and reliable environment for managing PHP. This environment improves PHP development by removing the current hardship in manually building and setting up an entire PHP environment. Zend Core also acts as an "efficiency facilitator" to improve the PHP implementation and management process for managing PHP development and production environments.
Zend Core does not require any complicated configurations or settings in order to run. After installation, Zend Core is ready to run. The only thing left to do is to login to the application with the password that was created in the installation process."

The URL to download the latest version: http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/php/zendcore/index.html

Just download it and execute the install scripts, remember to install the additional components, including Zend Framework, Mysql, PHPMyAdmin.

After installing, the directory layout(in /usr/local/Zend) is like:

|– Core
|   |– GUI
|   |– bin
|   |– cgi-bin
|   |– etc
|   |– include
|   |– lib
|   |– logs
|   |– modules
|   |– mysql
|   |– sbin
|   |– setup
|   `– share
|– ZendFramework
|   |– INSTALL.txt
|   |– LICENSE.txt
|   |– NEWS.txt
|   |– README.txt
|   |– VERSION.txt
|   |– demos
|   |– library
|   `– tests
`– apache2
    |– LICENSE
    |– bin
    |– build
    |– cgi-bin
    |– conf
    |– error
    |– htdocs
    |– icons
    |– include
    |– lib
    |– logs
    |– man
    |– manual
    `– modules

And the Web page is like this:

The Mysql link to PHPMyAdmin:

All is ready for you to explore!

For example, let’s test the OCI functionalities:

create the file conn.php as last article, and output is like this: