For more information on using advanced functionality in the Oracle driver, read the Advanced Oracle Tutorial

This is the preferred driver for connecting to Oracle databases Despite its name, this driver supports Oracle databases up to and including Oracle 11.

This is currently the only supported driver when using PHP 7

The following non-portable methods are available to this driver

a. PHP and Oracle reside on the same machine, use default SID, with non-persistent connections:

$conn = NewADOConnection('oci8');
$conn->connect(false, 'scott', 'tiger');

b. TNS Name defined in tnsnames.ora (or ONAMES or HOSTNAMES), eg. 'myTNS':

$conn = NewADOConnection('oci8');
$conn->connect(false, 'scott', 'tiger', 'myTNS');

or

$conn->connect('myTNS', 'scott', 'tiger');

c. Host Address and SID

$conn->connectSID = true;
$conn->connect('192.168.0.1', 'scott', 'tiger', 'SID');

d. Host Address and Service Name

$conn->connect('192.168.0.1', 'scott', 'tiger', 'servicename');

e. Oracle connection string:

$cstr = "(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)
                               (HOST=$host)
                               (PORT=$port)
                      )
                      (CONNECT_DATA=(SID=$sid)
                      )
         )";
$conn->connect($cstr, 'scott', 'tiger');

f. ADOdb data source names (dsn):

$dsn = 'oci8://user:pwd@tnsname/?persist';  # persist is optional
$conn = ADONewConnection($dsn);  # no need for Connect/PConnect

$dsn = 'oci8://user:pwd@host/sid';
$conn = ADONewConnection($dsn);

$dsn = 'oci8://user:pwd@/';   # oracle on local machine
$conn = ADONewConnection($dsn);

With ADOdb data source names, there is no need to call connect() or pConnect() as this is done automatically.

By default, after connection the following SQL is issued:

"ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT='".$this->NLS_DATE_FORMAT."'"

The default value for NLS_DATE_FORMAT is YYYY-MM-DD. To include time as well, use RRRR-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS or set the value to empty to disable this action.

This driver extends the oci8 driver and provides compatibility with other database drivers such as MySQL and SQL Server. Use this version of the driver if you are writing portable code.

This driver provides an undocumented enhancement to the oci8 driver

This driver provides an undocumented enhancement to the oci8 driver

This driver provided support to oracle 7 and lower databases. The driver is obsolete, and not supported by PHP and will be removed in ADOdb version 6.0.