oci_set_module_name
oci_set_action
oci_set_client_info
oci_set_client_identifier
These functions set values that are visible and used by the
database. They aid tracing, authentication and auditing.
2. Introduce connection attribute function:
oci_set_edition
Oracle 11g R2 "editions" allow multiple versions of DB objects
to exist at one time. By setting different editions, two
different versions of an application can run concurrently,
making upgrades or A/B testing easier.
3. Introduce OCI_NO_AUTO_COMMIT as an alias for the OCI_DEFAULT
constant (which is not the default value) used by oci_execute().
4. Allow the oci_set_prefetch value to be 0. This is important in
some cases using REF CURSORS in Oracle 11gR2.
5. Set the DRIVER_NAME attribute of Oracle Database 11gR2
connections to aid application tracing. The value used is to
"PHP OCI8" followed by the OCI8 version number. Note the
version number may get truncated in DB views such as
v$session_connect_info.
6. Generate an error if an invalid resource type is used in
oci_bind_by_name
[DOC] Documentation will be added for the changes
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.
