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While I was recently on summer vacation (yes, it is summer in half the world), the VirtualBox VM for PHP was refreshed to a more recent Zend Server/Oracle Linux/Oracle Database XE stack.

I just pulled the VM down, imported it and had it booting and serving PHP pages in a very few minutes.

VirtualBox really is marvelous. There is a link to download the VM near the foot of the Oracle Technology Network Developer VM page.

On the Ibuildings techPortal today, they've posted the latest in their DPC Radio series of podcasts - recordings from this year's Dutch PHP Conference.

In this latest episode, they share Christopher Jones' talk "Developing and Deploying High Performance PHP Applications".

The Oracle Learning Library has posted up the latest "Oracle By Example" labs giving an introduction to PHP & Python with the Oracle Database : Using PHP with Oracle Database 11g - a basic introduction Developing a PHP Web Application...

The Oracle 11.2.0.2 Instant Client libraries are now available on Linux x86 and x86_64 platforms from the Instant Client home page.

And they'll soon be uploaded on ULN for customers with Oracle Linux support to install via the update server....

On the Oracle Technology Network today there's a new article from Chris Jones about using the client identifier in the OCI8 PHP-to-Oracle connections to help with auditing, profiling and monitoring your Oracle database usage.

Oracle Database "client identifiers" are cool because they let Oracle Database trace and monitor DB resource usage for individual web users, not just for the username that connected to the DB.

You know how your web app files all connect...

I've just posted the PHP OCI8 1.4.2 and OCI8 1.4.3 extensions on PECL. The change notes are here. PHP OCI8 is the recommended database driver for using Oracle Database in the PHP scripting language.

Why the two releases so close...

• Reference Collection
• Google Checkout Simple
• OpenTBS
• Burn CD with PHP
• RRD Manipulator

Chris Jones has posted a guide to upgrading you PHP apps with as little downtime as possible via the new Editioning feature the 11gR2 version of the database.

IBM this week announced a new version of its flagship DB2 database with a new compatibility tool that will support applications built for Oracle databases.