<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >OCIPLogon</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Oracle 8 functions" HREF="ref.oci8.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="OCIParse" HREF="function.ociparse.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="OCIResult" HREF="function.ociresult.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.ociparse.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.ociresult.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.ociplogon" ></A >OCIPLogon</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN67472" ></A ><P > (PHP 3>= 3.0.8, PHP 4 )</P >OCIPLogon -- Connect to an Oracle database using a persistent connection</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN67475" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >OCIPLogon</B > ( string username, string password [, string db])<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >OCIPLogon()</B > creates a persistent connection to an Oracle 8 database and logs on. The optional third parameter can either contain the name of the local Oracle instance or the name of the entry in tnsnames.ora to which you want to connect. If the optional third parameter is not specified, PHP uses the environment variables ORACLE_SID (Oracle instance) or TWO_TASK (tnsnames.ora) to determine which database to connect to. </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.ocilogon.html" ><B CLASS="function" >OCILogon()</B ></A > and <A HREF="function.ocinlogon.html" ><B CLASS="function" >OCINLogon()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.ociparse.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.ociresult.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >OCIParse</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.oci8.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >OCIResult</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >