...transformed in 1997 when it was taken over by the Israeli founders of Zend, who rewrote it and changed its name to PHP HypertextProcessor. PHP borrows from C, Java and Perl. What's it for? PHP was designed to create dynamic web pages quickly...
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/12/02/233670/hot-skills-php.htm
...Linux, also download the "Instant Client Package - SDK." Apache HTTPD Server Version 1 or 2 PHP - PHP HypertextProcessor Version 5.2 Enabling the PHP OCI8 Extension on Windows The Instant Client binaries complement PHP...
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/notes/technote_php_instant.html