Building Web Application

Using PHP & Oracle

Balaranjith
Amit Surana

Date: November 8, 2013

Introduction about PhP

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 About PHP
PHP is a server-side scripting language designed
for web development but also used as a general-
purpose programming language
PHP is compatible with most of the databases
including Oracle.
Any web based application can be easily
developed in PHP

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 Why PHP
PHP is freely accessible
It's quick to develop in PHP
Programmers of Java, PERL, BASIC, and
other popular languages can find many
parallels to ease transition to PHP
It runs on disparate operating systems
There are many support groups, forums, and
teams supporting PHP

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 Architecture PHP & Oracle

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 OCI8
These functions allow you to access Oracle
Database 12c, 11g, 10g, 9i and 8i.
They support SQL and PL/SQL statements.
Basic features include transaction control,
binding of PHP variables to Oracle
placeholders, and support for large object
(LOB) types and collections.
Oracle's scalability features such as Database
Resident Connection Pooling (DRCP) and
result caching are also supported.
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 Connection with Oracle Database
To enable the oracle database for PHP, after
installation of LAMP or WAMP one needs
to make some changes.
Find the PHP configuration file php.ini and
locate the below line in the file and
uncomment it.
;extension=php_oci8.dll

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 Connecting to Database
To access the oracle database, first connect the
database. Database could reside on local or
remote server.
Before starting the connection one would
require the username, password and tnsnames
for the database. Below is the code for how to
connect to Oracle database.
<?php
$c = oci_connect('un', 'pw', '//localhost/XE');
?>
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 Retrieving and Modifying data in Oracle using PHP

SELECT
<?php
$s = oci_parse($conn, 'select * from
employees');
oci_execute($s);
while ($row = oci_fetch_array($s))
foreach ($row as $item)
print $item;
?>
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 Retrieving and Modifying data in Oracle
using PHP

INSERT
Below is example code for INSERT statement. We can
also create dynamic insert query if values from the form are
to be inserted.
<?php
$s = oci_parse($conn, 'insert into
employees(id,firstname,lastname,dob) values (1,Amit,
Surana, 15-JUL-1990)');
oci_execute($s);
?>

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 Calling Oracle Stored Procedure
<?php
$s = oci_parse($conn, "begin
atulorc_tk_pkg.ATL_TK_GET_WEEKOFF(:bind0,
TO_DATE(:bind1,'DD-Mon-YYYY'),
TO_DATE(:bind2,'DD-Mon-YYYY'),
:bind3);
exception when others then
:bind4:=sqlerrm;
end;");
oci_bind_by_name($s, ":bind0", $_GET['emp_weekoff_chg'],32);
oci_bind_by_name($s, ":bind1", $_GET['weekoff_date'],32);
oci_bind_by_name($s, ":bind2", $_GET['new_date'],32);
oci_bind_by_name($s, ":bind3", $msg,1000); // 32 is the return length
oci_bind_by_name($s, ":bind4", $err,1000);
oci_execute($s, OCI_DEFAULT);
?>
OCI_BIND_BY_NAME() - Binds a PHP variable to an Oracle placeholder

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 SQL Statement Execution
Parse - oci_parse()
Prepares a statement for execution
Bind - oci_bind_by_name()
Optionally binds variables in WHERE clause or
to PL/SQL arguments
Execute - oci_execute()
The Database executes the statement and buffers
the results
Fetch - oci_fetch_array()
Optionally retrieves results from the database
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 Performance Improvement DRCP
(Data Resident Connection Pooling)
DRCP pools a set of dedicated database server
processes (known as pooled servers), which can be
shared across multiple applications running on the
same or several hosts.
A connection broker process manages the pooled
servers at the database instance level.
A connection broker accepts incoming connection
requests from PHP processes (e.g. web server
processes handling PHP requests) and assigns each
a free server in the pool.
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 DRCP Architecture

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 DRCP Configuration
The pool needs to be started before connection requests begin. The
command below does this by bringing up the broker, which
registers with the database listener:
SQL> execute dbms_connection_pool.start_pool();
Configuring PHP for DRCP
PHP must be built with the OCI8 1.3 or later extension. PHP 5.3
contains OCI8 1.4. For PHP 5.2 and older versions of PHP,
download the latest release of OCI8 from PECL, extract it and use
it to replace the existing ext/oci8 directory in PHP.

oci8.connection_class = MYPHPAPP
$c = oci_pconnect('myuser', 'mypassword',
'myhost/sales:POOLED');
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 Introduction to Frameworks
A framework provides the much sought after
robustness and strength to the website.
It helps the developers to fast track the entire
development process and consequently they can
meet the high-end demands from the client side
easily.
There are number of reasons for the need of
frameworks required for PHP.

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 Advantages of Framework
Code and File Organization
Utilities and Libraries
The MVC Pattern
Security
Less Code & Faster Development
Performance Tools
Suitable for Teamwork

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 Framework Examples
Yii Framework
Yii is one of the most popular and top Framework amongst all
PHP Frameworks.
Yii has myriad of features such as MVC, DAO / Active
Record , I18N/L10N, caching, authentication and role-based
access control, scaffolding, testing, open source, high
performing, object oriented, database access object, easy form
validation, default support for web services and many more.
CodeIgniter
Built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to
create full-featured web applications.
It is a framework requires nearly zero configurations.
It helps in eschewing complexity, and favoring simple
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 Integrating with Oracle EBS
Have you tried opening Oracle EBS from
disparate devices like mobile or tablet?
Found difficulty??
Is there any solution to this???

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 Solution
We can create our bespoke applications to
obtain the required data from the database and
display it in vanilla form or do the
manipulation and calculations and show it to
users.
We can also create forms in PHP which are
easy to build, rich in user interface and easy to
deploy.

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 Case
Sales persons are always on the fly and getting the
access to Oracle EBS is not feasible.
At such point of time integration of PHP and Oracle
database comes to rescue as we can create PHP forms
which can be accessed from varied devices or create
Android application which can easily talk with PHP
and Oracle database.
Oracle EBS is already providing most of the APIs for
inserting and updating the record for most of the
functionality which can be easily used and can be
made accessible across disparate devices like smart
phones, tablets and PCs.
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 Benefits & Challenges
Benefits
Reduced load on Application Server
Rich user interfaces
Interactive websites

Challenges
Security
Validation of data
Getting the stakeholders information
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 Conclusion
Though there are some challenges in
integrating such solution but with strong
and robust architecture and security design,
these solutions can help system to be
ubiquitous.

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