2. Allow an empty username/password to be passed so Oracle can do
non-password based authentication, i.e. "External Authentication".
http://news.php.net/php.internals/37545
[DOC]
A new OCI_CRED_EXT flag can be passed as the "session_mode" parameter
to oci_connect(), oci_new_connect() and oci_pconnect().
$c1 = oci_connect("/", "", $db, null, OCI_CRED_EXT);
This tells Oracle to do external or OS authentication, if configured
in the database.
OCI_CRED_EXT can only be used with username of "/" and a empty
password. Oci8.privileged_connection may be On or Off.
The new flag may be combined with the existing OCI_SYSOPER or
OCI_SYSDBA modes (note: oci8.privileged_connection needs to be On for
OCI_SYSDBA and OCI_SYSOPER mode), e.g.:
$c1 = oci_connect("/", "", $db, null, OCI_CRED_EXT+OCI_SYSOPER);
- Do scope-end release for oci_pconnect (oci8.old_oci_close_semantics=1 gives old behavior)
- Fix session reuse with 10.2 client libs
- Fix the Ping macro version check for 10.2
- Add type check associated with zend_list_find
- Code connection re-organized for reuse
- Format comments
- WS changes
- Prepare for new PECL release
Tests:
- Add new tests
- Rationalize password tests
- Revert use of __DIR__ so tests will work with PHP 5.2
- Update some skipifs to make tests more portable
Fixed bug #44372 (compilation with Oracle 10gR1 libraries)
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=44372
Updated updated error number list to improve re-connection
behavior after a database restart.
Guard against potential internal list corruption after ping
removes old oci_pconnect() information.
Fix ini_set("oci8.connection_class", "abc") to get an appropriate
persistent connection.
Ping at oci8.ping_interval for oci_connect() and oci_new_connect()
when DRCP connections are used. This improves non-persistent
connection reliability if a database gets restarted.
collections, statements and BLOBs seem to be working ok
though there are still some things to be done in order to make oci_bind_array_by_name() work with U-strings
Notes:
- in Unicode mode OCI8 always speaks to Oracle server using UTF-16, so all the conversions are done by the client lib.
This is why character set parameter of oci_connect() and NLS_LANG are ignored in U-mode.
- BLOBs and CLOBs behave quite differently in U-mode.
Reading data from a CLOB would result in Unicode string, while BLOBs would return binary string.
Also, all LOB utilities work with _bytes_ when BLOB is used and _characters_ when it's CLOB.
It's not that obvious, but it does make a lot of sense to me.
