Date language

Hi all, this is my "stack":
Centos 5 + Oracle DB 10gR2 + Apache 2.0 + PHP 5
I localized oracle db in my language, italian, by setting the environment variables (NLS_LANGUAGE, NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE and so on...) and i can insert the dates in italian without problems (for ex.: 29-GIU-07) but when i use the php oci library to query the db i have to write the dates in english (then, if i query the db using iSQL*Plus i can see the dates in italian) and php shows me the dates in english too. My colleaagues with the same code, but in Windows (which is localized in italian), can use and see the dates in italian. How can i solve the problem?
Thanks.
UPDATE: i fixed the problem! The environment variables were set for the user "oracle" but not for the apache user, so i put the env. variables ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_SID,
NLS_LANGUAGE, NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE in the .bash_profile of the apache user. I hope this will be helpful for someone else with the same problem.
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GioDa

If you don't have permission to edit the apache user's bash_profile, you can also add the variables to the apachectl script in format:
VARIABLE-VALUE
export VARIABLE
a couple of mine are:
NLS_LANG=.AL32UTF8
export NLS_LANG
# Make sure the Oracle session sets the TimeZone to BST
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make sure that you kill apache and then start again, not just a restart. If apachectl stop doesnt work to kill it, you may need something similar to
killall -9 -w httpd
Signal 9 will kill the apache process dead, use with care in production servers, see
http://www.kingcomputerservices.com/unix_101/sending_signals.htm
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