Multiple Oracle Homes & php

Hi
I currently have ora8i, ora9i , 10XE & Zend Core for PHP installed on my machine.
When I have just installed Zend, the PHP side works and can find the XE - no problem.
When I have 'work' to do and need a different 'oracle_home' setup, I use the 'home selector'. When I want to re-connect to PHP/XE the link to oci8 has gone and nothing fixes until I re-install Zend.
Anyone know a better way? (Please!)

Try changing ORACLE_HOME and LD_LIBRARY_PATH to whichever home you want to use and restarting Apache (that comes with Zend Core). That may work, but no guarantees.
~Jer

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