hi garvin,
Thanks for ur support till date from the start of our project.
Serendipity is working only in a limited way for oracle.
What we have developed still need to be tested and its still not consistent and it doesnt support the complete functionality as the original one.
Thanks.
srinath.

hi,
I could configure PHP 4.3.2, Apache 2.0.46, Oracle 10g with windows.
Now i want to create the same environment for Linux.
can u please provide me detailed step by step procedure for this.
Thanks.
srinath

Hi,

This is regarding serendipity oracle conversion . In FrontPage, when we select an entry, the comments corresponding to that entry is not displayed and in its place the following message is printed.

Warning: Smarty error: serendipity_smarty_printcomments: missing 'entry' parameter in D:\Program ...

Hi garvin,
We were working for customising serendipity for Oracle 9i,PHP 5.1.2, Apache 2.0.55.We could make many links like New Entry/Edit entries,Create Category,etc work.
Now suddenly our requiremnts have been changed as:
PHP: 4.3.2
Apache web server: 2.0.46
Oracle: 10.2.0.2.0
Will the same ...

Hi,
Could not connect to database; check your settings.
The mySQL error was: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)
Thanks.
srinath.

Hi,

While continuing with simple installation after making changes we get some warnings. And i found a query with table called "authorgroups" in warnings,but this table definition is not found in db.sql...
Also please have a look at some of the warnings and do the needful.

SELECT * from ...

Hi garvin,
Thanks for your constant support!
Please let us know what changes should be made in serendipity_db_schema_import() function:

function serendipity_db_schema_import($query) {
static $search = array('{AUTOINCREMENT}', '{PRIMARY}',
'{UNSIGNED}', '{FULLTEXT}', '{FULLTEXT_MYSQL}', '{BOOLEAN ...

Hi,
After installation of serendipity using mysql as database we find that serendipity database is created in mysql with several tables like categories,comments,entries,ect created in the database..
Are these tables and database created automatically or shud we create them manually...
Where are the ...

hi garvin,
Thanks for ur valuable contribution!
Can we get the source code fro the following functions:
mysql_insert_id()
mysql_select_db()
mysql_info()

bcoz even after going thru the OCI SQL syntax manual we could not figure out functions or combination o ffunctions which could perform the same ...

Hi,
In the process of making serendipity work with oracle we have created oci8.inc.php file and implemented various methods using mysql.inc.php as template.But we are facing some problems..There is no method oci8_select_db similar to mysql_select_db.Also we didn't find oci methods similar to the ...

In the process of conversion to oracle should we create a file for oracle similar to the files \include\admin\importers\wordpress-pg.inc.php(this is for postgres) and wordpress.inc.php(this is for mysql)

hi garvin,
Thanks for ur valuable contibution.
can u please send me an oci8.inc.php file if u already have one, so that i can use it as a template.
Thanks once again.
srinath.
Hi!

The oci8.inc.php file needs to contain all the functions that can be found in any of the mysqli.inc.php, mysql.inc.php ...

Thanks for the info.
I have some doubt in the creation of below mentioned file:
"Create a file include/db/oci8.inc.php - you can use the MySQL include file as a starting point." what shud be the content of the oci8.inc.php file?shud it be similar to MySql include file.

Thanks.
srinath


Hi!

You ...

HI,

It would be great if u provide some insight about how to do this conversion to oracle/creating a Db layer.
Any links to documents or procedure to do this task will be helpful.

Thanks.
srinath


Hi,

creating an DB layer for Oracle is not easy because Oracle is a Database not designed for ...

HI,

It would be great if u provide some insight about how to do this conversion to oracle/creating a Db layer.
Any links to documents or procedure to do this task will be helpful.

Thanks.
srinath