oci8

Hi I am trying to store names into an Oracle database and fetch them back using PHP and oci8. However, if I insert the é directly into the Oracle database and use oci8 to fetch it back I just receive an e Do I have to encode all special characters (including é ) into html entities (ie: é ) before inserting into database ... or am I missing something ? Thx UPDATE: Mar 1 at 18:40 found this function: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-decode.php#85034 function charset_decode_utf_8($string) { if(@!ereg("[\200-\237]",$string) && @!ereg("[\241-\377]",$string)) { return $string; } $string =

I maintain a PHP driven application with Oracle backend (OCI8 functions). The app is developed with Oracle 10g XE and deployed on whatever version the customer owns. The application handles single-byte text (ISO-8859-15) and I've never had any problem while developing against the Western European edition of Oracle XE. However, I've recently installed the Universal edition and I'm having issues when inserting large strings with non-ASCII chars. This version sets NLS_CHARACTERSET = AL32UTF8 ; since I my app uses WE8ISO8859P15 Oracle silently converts my input data from ISO-8859-15 to UTF-8

Specifically, the ruby-oci8 gem. I have both 1.0.7 and 2.0.4 installed. I want 1.0.7. I can just require oci8, but I don't get the version I want. irb(main):001:0> require 'oci8' => true irb(main):002:0> OCI8::VERSION => "2.0.4" I can require using the full path to the file, which works, but is not going to be portable: irb(main):001:0> require 'C:\Ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\ruby-oci8-1.0.7-x86-mswin32-60\lib\oci8' => true irb(main):002:0> OCI8::VERSION => "1.0.7" I can use the gem command to ask for the version I want, but it doesn't appear to actually load the library: irb(main):001:0> gem

I don't have a oracle database installed in my system. But i want to connect to the remote system. Do i just need to install oci8 extension library or i need to install both instantclient and the oci8 extension? If I remember correctly, OCI8 extension wouldn't even compile without Instant Client; if you install using PECL , it asks you for Instant Client path. Moreover, from my experience, you'll also need Instant Client SDK in addition to Basic, unpack them to one directory, and make some symlinks before running PECL command: sudo ln -s libclntsh.so.* libclntsh.so sudo ln -s libocci.so.*

I have this table with a 'title' field which is varchar2 and I want to select all rows and sort them first by number and then by the alphabet as it normally happens. For instance, I currently get this using a simple ORDER BY title in the end: Abc Def 321 But I want this: 321 Abc Def The weird thing is that SQL Developer shows the "right" order, with numbers first. But on my app (PHP using OCI8) it shows numbers last. Not an Oracle expert, but you are supposed to be able to do it without altering the session with SELECT * FROM my_data SORT by NLSSORT(title,’NLS_SORT=BINARY_AI’) where you can