I decided to start toying with HTMLDB and see what does it really do. I want to see session variables, $_POST, $_GET, $_ENV, in a word, everything. One way of doing it is to link PHP to HTMLDB. Well, Oracle uses perl 5.6.1, the implementation was rather @#$%! but, eventually, I got it:
$ make install Installing PHP SAPI module: apache cp libs/libphp5.so /home/htmldb/Apache/Apache/libexec/libphp5.so chmod 755 /home/htmldb/Apache/Apache/libexec/libphp5.so [activating module `php5' in /home/htmldb/Apache/Apache/conf/httpd.conf] Installing PHP CLI binary: /home/htmldb/local/bin/ Installing PHP CLI man page: /home/htmldb/local/man/man1/ Installing build environment: /home/htmldb/local/lib/php/build/ Installing header files: /home/htmldb/local/include/php/ Installing helper programs: /home/htmldb/local/bin/ program: phpize program: php-config Installing man pages: /home/htmldb/local/man/man1/ page: phpize.1 page: php-config.1 Installing PEAR environment: /home/htmldb/local/lib/php/ [PEAR] Archive_Tar - installed: 1.3.1 [PEAR] Console_Getopt - installed: 1.2 pear/PEAR can optionally use package "pear/XML_RPC" (version >= 1.4.0) [PEAR] PEAR - installed: 1.4.6 Wrote PEAR system config file at: /home/htmldb/local/etc/pear.conf You may want to add: /home/htmldb/local/lib/php to your php.ini include_path Installing PDO headers: /home/htmldb/local/include/php/ext/pdo/