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PHP Oracle Web Development: Data processing, Security, Caching, XML, Web Services, and Ajax

By : Yuli Vasiliev
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PHP Oracle Web Development: Data processing, Security, Caching, XML, Web Services, and Ajax

By: Yuli Vasiliev

Overview of this book

Oracle Database gets high marks for performance, reliability, and scalability. Building and deploying your PHP applications on Oracle Database enables you to combine the power and robustness of Oracle and the ease of use, short development time, and high performance of PHP. When used in a complementary way, PHP and Oracle allow you to build high-performance, scalable, and reliable data-driven Web applications with a minimum of effort.When building a PHP/Oracle application, you have two general options. The first is to use an Oracle database just to store data, performing all the operations on that data on the client side; the other is to use the database not only to store data, but also to process it, thus moving data processing to the data. While building the key business logic of a database-driven PHP application inside the database is always a good idea, you should bear in mind that not all of the databases available today allow you to do. The Oracle database, which offers record-breaking performance, scalability, and reliability, does. The partnership of Oracle and the open-source scripting language PHP is an excellent solution for building high-performance, scalable, and reliable data-driven web applications.This 100% practical book is crammed full of easy-to-follow examples. It provides all the tools a PHP/Oracle developer needs to take advantage of the winning combination. It addresses the needs of a wide spectrum of PHP/Oracle developers, placing the emphasis on the most up-to-date topics, such as new PHP and Oracle Database features, stored procedure programming, handling transactions, security, caching, web services, and Ajax.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
PHP Oracle Web Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Using Oracle Object-Relational Features


So far, you have looked at the features that can help you take advantage of the object‑oriented model at the PHP side of your PHP/Oracle application. This section briefly touches upon the Oracle object-relational features, providing some examples that should help you better understand how these features can be used to develop effective PHP/Oracle applications. For detailed information about Oracle object-relational features, see Oracle documentation: Application Developer's Guide - Object-Relational Features.

Using Oracle Object Types

As an alternative to creating relational tables and views, Oracle allows you to define tables and views based on user-defined object types, making it easier for you to model real-world entities and relationships between them.

Turning back to the example discussed in the Using Transactions in PHP/Oracle Applications section in Chapter 4, let's look at how you might reorganize the database data used by the example into Oracle...