problem oci_connect solved..thanks to those involved

I would have had no problem if I had:

(1) used ZEND
(2) installed php, apache, oracle XE, oci8,instant client

I installed 11g1 Enterprise and that already had a client.

Fedora already had php 5 and apache 2

FINALLY: The following works in the browser.

hr/hr is automatically built in the 11g1 database


require('anyco_ui.inc');

$db = "(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 127.0.0.1)(PORT = 1521))
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SID = LMKIIIGDNSID)
)
)";
// oci_internal_debug(1); // turn on tracing
// $conn = oci_connect("/", "", null, null, OCI_SYSDBA);
// if ($conn=oci_connect('hr', 'hr','LMKIIIGDNSID'))
if ($conn=oci_connect('hr', 'hr',$db))
{
echo "Successfully connected to Oracle.\n";
// OCILogoff($conn);
}
else
{
$err = OCIError();
echo "Oracle Connect Error " . $err;
}

ui_print_header('Departments');
do_query($conn, 'SELECT * FROM DEPARTMENTS');
ui_print_footer(date('Y-m-d H:i:s'));

// Execute query and display results
function do_query($conn, $query)
{
$stid = oci_parse($conn, $query);
$r = oci_execute($stid, OCI_DEFAULT);

print '