Oracle 10g HTTP Server + PHP

Question

Does anyone know how to enable PHP support on Oracle HTTP Server (from Oracle DB Companion CD)? I tried to compile PHP on it, bet I get the following error:
Configuring SAPI modules
checking for AOLserver support... no
checking for Apache 1.x module support via DSO through APXS...
Sorry, I was not able to successfully run APXS. Possible reasons:
1. Perl is not installed;
2. Apache was not compiled with DSO support (--enable-module=so);
3. 'apxs' is not in your path. Try to use --with-apxs=/path/to/apxs
The output of /u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0/cp_1/Apache/Apache/bin/apxs follows
ld.so.1: /u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0/cp_1/Apache/Apache/bin/httpd: fatal: libdms2.so: open failed: No such file
or directory
apxs:Error: Sorry, no DSO support for Apache available
apxs:Error: under your platform. Make sure the Apache
apxs:Error: module mod_so is compiled into your server
apxs:Error: binary `/u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0/cp_1/Apache/Apache/bin/httpd'.
configure: error: Aborting
Oracle HTTP server does not have DSO support, is there some possibility to enable it? Or there exists another way to enable PHP support on Oracle HTTP server.

Answer 1

Your existing PHP already extracts as binary - that's what is causing
a problem.
The two functions I mentioned convert to ASCII using their respective
encodings. What format you want depends on what you want to do with
the string.
Here is some code that may be helpful.
<?php
// Fetch a RAW and convert to a hexidecimal representation similar to
// fetching it as a SQLT_STR
$c = oci_connect("hr", "hr", "XE");
// Create test table
$s = oci_parse($c, "create table rtable(rcol raw(2000))");
oci_execute($s);
// Load first 2000 bytes of the test.gif image into the RAW
$img = file_get_contents( dirname(__FILE__)."/test.gif");
$img = substr($img, 0, 2000);
$s = oci_parse ($c, "insert into rtable (rcol) values (:bv)");
oci_bind_by_name($s, ":bv", $img, -1, SQLT_BIN);
oci_execute($s);
// Query the RAW and convert to one form of ASCII representation
$stid = oci_parse($c, 'select rcol from rtable');
oci_execute($stid);
print '<table border="1">';
while ($row = oci_fetch_array($stid, OCI_ASSOC+OCI_RETURN_NULLS)) {
  echo "<tr><td>";
  echo bin2hex($row['RCOL']);
  echo "</td></tr>\n";
echo '</table>';
// Clean up
$stmt = oci_parse($c, "drop table rtable");
oci_execute($stmt);
?>-- cj