PDO Connection to a local 10G DB

Question

Hello together,
i am using Zend IDE for PHP-Development and have the following problem:
$dbh = new PDO('oci:dbname=LOCAL.ABC.XYZ.ORG','scott','tiger');
connects to the local database inside the IDE without a problem.
Running this login.php script over http://.... inside the browser over an Apache 2.x doesn't connect and i get a script time out.
The settings for the php.ini files (Zend IDE and PHP 5.1.2 installation) are the same.
Is there a solution out ?
Thanks for your help.
Hans

Answer 1

Other than the typo in the previous comment, the Easy Connect syntax
is often an easier way to connect in PDO, ADOdb, or oci8. If the Oracle
client libraries that PHP links with are 10g or 10gR2, you can use the
connect string "[/]hostname[:port][service_name]". For example to
connect to the HR schema on the local XE database in PDO you can use:
<?php
  try {
    $dbh = new PDO('oci:dbname=localhost/XE', 'HR', 'HRPASSWORD');
  catch (PDOException $e) {
    echo 'Connection failed: ' . $e->getMessage();
    exit;
  $s = $dbh->prepare("select city from locations");
  $s->execute();
  while ($r = $s->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
    echo $r['CITY'] . "<br>";
?>