Establishes a connection between PHP and an Oracle database with the
given username user
and password password
.
Connections can be made using SQL*Net
by supplying the TNS name to
user
like this:
If you have character data with non-ASCII characters, you should
make sure that NLS_LANG
is set in your
environment. For server modules, you should set it in the
server's environment before starting the server.
Returns a connection index on success, or FALSE on failure. Details about the error can be retrieved using the ora_error() and ora_errorcode() functions.