PHP Scalability and High Availability: Database Resident Connection Pooling and Fast Application Notification

Overview

PHP is a popular dynamic programming language for web applications. PHP comes with extensions that provide a wide range of capabilities including database access. The OCI8 extension in PHP allows applications to connect to Oracle Database. It has support for basic and advanced Oracle Database features, allowing easy and efficient use of SQL and PL/SQL. This paper describes enhancements to PHP's OCI8 extension to use Oracle Database 11g Database Resident Connection Pooling (DRCP) and Oracle Database 10gR2 or 11g Fast Application Notification (FAN).