Over the past few years there have been numerous efforts to get Java and PHP to play nice with each other. Some of them have worked well, others…not so much. Now Oracle and Zend are teaming up to help PHP developers reach into the heart of Java. Click on in, I’ve got links…but no cookies.

Building an enterprise-grade application with PHP and Oracle, but can’t figure out how to get the two of them talking? There’s an easy solution: Zend Server 5.0 comes with a modern, secure PHP stack that includes OCI8 support out of the box. Toss in support for Oracle connection pooling, rule-based page caching and industrial-strength code tracing and profiling, and you’re ready to play with the big boys!

As Chris Jones briefly mentions and this press release discusses in more detail, Zend and Oracle have joined together to make it even easier for those using Oracle to also use Zend Server as their platform.

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.

At the MySQL Conference today, a number of announcements were made. Not the least of which were discussions about Oracle’s acquisition of Sun. But also an announcement of the preview release of MySQL 5.4

Chris Jones of Oracle has updated the original Oracle PHP FAQ & Troubleshooting FAQs that Oracle has been hosting, and moved them into a Wiki to allow easier access and future updates.

Hi and welcome to The ZendCon Sessions. This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2007 in Burlingame, CA. I hope you enjoy today’s session as we listen to Christopher Jones present “Performance Tuning for PHP with Oracle Databases”

Today’s special guest is Lorna Mitchell (lornajane to those of you who hang on on the phpc channel on freenode.net) Lorna is a PHP Developer from the United Kingdom and a moderator on the phpwomen.org forums. After graduating in Electronic Engineering 4 years ago she pursued a career in software development and is currently a developer at Coolpink.net. In her spare time Lorna hangs out on IRC and blogs at lornajane.net. Today, Lorna is going to talk to us about PHP and Oracle.

p. Chris Jones and Allison Holloway both posted recently that Oracle has released a new version of the “The Underground PHP and Oracle Manual”.

p. Zend announced today the release of Zend Core for Oracle 2.0.1. This release contains Core 2.0 and 2.0.1 functionality and improvements.