A Selection of PHP References

CS 328 - Web-Apps Using Databases
Section 10 - CRN 22226 - MW 3:00-4:20
Spring 2026

Last modified: Monday, March 23, 2026

Important Notes:

• Note: if any of these references happen to follow coding or style standards other than the CS 328 coding or style standards, you are still expected to follow the CS 328 coding and style standards for CS 328 course work! 8-)

• CS 328 PHP Coding Standards so far
  
  
• PHP Survival Tips
  
  
• www.php.net, "home page" for PHP
• PHP manual , from www.php.net
  
  
• Basics of Oracle/PHP Bind Variables - (in tagged PDF)
• Basics of PHP - OCI function oci_commit - (in tagged PDF)
• Basics of Calling PL/SQL Subroutines from PHP using OCI - (in tagged PDF)
  
  
• try-oracle.php - original "short form", stand-alone example connecting from nrs-projects PHP to Oracle student database based on where the PHP resides
  • Runnable version on nrs-projects:
    https://nrs-projects.humboldt.edu/~st10/s26cs328/try-oracle.php
  
  
• try-oracle-explained.php - version with more comments included
  • Runnable version on nrs-projects:
    https://nrs-projects.humboldt.edu/~st10/s26cs328/try-oracle-explained.php
  
  
• hum_conn_no_login.php - syntax-colored display version of PHP function hum_conn_no_login to make connection to Oracle more convenient
  
  
• 328footer-plus-end.html - syntax-colored display version of HTML snippet containing just the footer and the end tags for the body and html from the end of html-template.html, for more-convenient require_once use
  
  
• https://phpapprentice.com/ - "PHP Apprentice An online book for learning PHP" - another looks-promising resource

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