<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Ora_Logon</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 functions" HREF="ref.oracle.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Ora_Logoff" HREF="function.ora-logoff.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Ora_Numcols" HREF="function.ora-numcols.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.ora-logoff.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.ora-numcols.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.ora-logon" ></A >Ora_Logon</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN69360" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >Ora_Logon -- open an Oracle connection</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN69363" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >ora_logon</B > ( string user, string password)<BR ></BR ><P > Establishes a connection between PHP and an Oracle database with the given username and password. </P ><P > Connections can be made using <SPAN CLASS="productname" >SQL*Net</SPAN > by supplying the <SPAN CLASS="acronym" >TNS</SPAN > name to <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >user</I ></TT > like this: <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><A NAME="AEN69379" ></A ><P ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >$conn = Ora_Logon("user@TNSNAME", "pass");</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV > </P ><P > If you have character data with non-ASCII characters, you should make sure that <TT CLASS="envar" >NLS_LANG</TT > is set in your environment. For server modules, you should set it in the server's environment before starting the server. </P ><P > Returns a connection index on success, or <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > on failure. Details about the error can be retrieved using the <A HREF="function.ora-error.html" ><B CLASS="function" >ora_error()</B ></A > and <A HREF="function.ora-errorcode.html" ><B CLASS="function" >ora_errorcode()</B ></A > functions. </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.ora-logoff.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.ora-numcols.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Ora_Logoff</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.oracle.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Ora_Numcols</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >