{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/12560","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/12560/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/12560/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/12560/events","html_url":"https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/12560","id":185246496,"number":12560,"title":"Oracle Database Driver Changes Needed for PHP7","user":{"login":"orware","id":931650,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/931650?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/orware","html_url":"https://github.com/orware","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/orware/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/orware/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/orware/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/orware/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/orware/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/orware/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/orware/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/orware/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/orware/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms/labels/No%20Code%20Attached%20Yet","name":"No Code Attached Yet","color":"ededed"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2016-10-25T22:04:42Z","updated_at":"2016-10-25T22:40:46Z","closed_at":null,"body":"### Steps to reproduce the issue\r\n\r\nPHP7 and a desire to connect to an Oracle database.\r\n\r\n### Expected result\r\n\r\nIt should work, but currently the Oracle Database Driver included within Joomla is using the PDO_OCI extension's functions, rather than the OCI8 extension.\r\n\r\nI learned a few months back that the PDO_OCI extension isn't really well supported under PHP 7 and there seemed to be a strong likelihood that wouldn't change in the near future, so in order to better support those building extensions potentially connecting to Oracle databases I'm going to work on an OCI8 version to contribute back to the project.\r\n\r\nSome references for the issue:\r\nhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/37191161/install-pdo-oci-on-php7\r\nhttps://github.com/yiisoft/yii2/issues/10975\r\n\r\n### Actual result\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n### System information (as much as possible)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n### Additional comments\r\n\r\nSince I'm just starting the process at the moment, I'm wondering if I should go ahead and do so from within the Joomla CMS repository or whether I should update a separate Database Framework/Platform package that's located elsewhere?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/comments/256199105","html_url":"https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/12560#issuecomment-256199105","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/12560","id":256199105,"user":{"login":"brianteeman","id":1296369,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1296369?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/brianteeman","html_url":"https://github.com/brianteeman","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brianteeman/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brianteeman/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brianteeman/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brianteeman/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brianteeman/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brianteeman/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brianteeman/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brianteeman/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brianteeman/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-10-25T22:40:46Z","updated_at":"2016-10-25T22:40:46Z","body":"Sorry I clearly didnt understand your original comment as meaning \"connecting to oracle\" as an external data source"}}
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