Connecting PHP5 w/in Safari to localhost Oracle 10g

Question

Greetings:
     I'm a struggling neophyte to PHP5. I'm trying to connect to an Oracle 10g database that I've installed on Apple OS X (Panther).
I'm using Safari v1.2.4 running upon Apache server.
The oracle table is named: 'example' with two varchar2(25) fields in it.
Here's the script:
<?php
print("Trying to connect to an Oracle database."); <--- repeated statements.
include 'DB.php';
$db = DB::connect('oci8://ric:stupid@localhost/example');
if (DB::isError($db)) {die("Can't connect: ".$db->getMessage());}
print ("The End.");
?>
The URL: http://localhost/~oracle/db.php
All I get are repeated string statements.
THE OUTPUT (after some HD activity, as seen via Safari browser):
" Trying to connect to an Oracle database. Trying to connect to an Oracle database. Trying to connect to an Oracle database. Trying to connect to an Oracle database. Trying to connect to an Oracle database. Trying to connect to an Oracle database. Trying to connect to an Oracle database...." ....etc.
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Here's the Oracle side:
[Users/oracle]sqlplus /nolog
SQL*Plus: Release 10.1.0.3.0 - Production on Thu Dec 23 11:04:22 2004
Copyright (c) 1982, 2004, Oracle. All rights reserved.
SQL> connect / as sysdba
Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> startup
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 146800640 bytes
Fixed Size 778184 bytes
Variable Size 66068536 bytes
Database Buffers 79691776 bytes
Redo Buffers 262144 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.
SQL> connect ric/stupid
Connected.
SQL> desc example;
Name Null? Type
FIRST_NAME VARCHAR2(25)
LAST_NAME VARCHAR2(25)
SQL>
Does anyone know what's happening and how to fix this?
Regards,
Ric.

Answer 1

I don'y see any loop in your php example -- why it outputs 'trying to connect...' so many times?
Anyway, remove this print() message -- it's worthless and pay attention to what PEAR error message says. getMessage() is usually not enough, see more detailed error description via getDebugInfo(), i.g.
if (DB::isError($db)) {
echo "An error occurred while trying to connect to the database server.<br>\n";
echo "Error message: " . $db->getMessage() . "<br>\n";
echo "A more detailed error description: " . $db->getDebugInfo() . "<br>\n";
then try to output something $db->via getOne("select blah...") or getAll("select blah...").
If all you can see is a blank page, make sure you have display_errors = On in your PHP ini file ( just don't forget to turn it back 'off' for your production version ).