Oracle announced on Wednesday the enhancement and preview release of an upgraded Oracle Call Interface (OCI8) driver for PHP. The enhanced driver, OCI8, allows for server-side connection pooling ...

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It's not a fork, but a stricter version that could leave compatibility baggage behind and add new features more easily A new dialect of PHP, code-named P++, could be developed as a stricter variant of ...