>I'm a newbie in PHP, what should I do to connect to Oracle Database.
>Do I have to install a library to do that?
>Please anyone, help.

http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/ref.oracle.php

I usually do something similiar to this.

(psuedo code follows):

// Define Oracle_Home and Oracle_Sid
putenv("ORACLE_HOME=/opt/ORACLE/product");
putenv("ORACLE_SID=MYDATA");


// Connect To Oracle Server/Else Return Error(s) 
if($connection = ora_logon(my-login,my-pass))
        { 
                // Open Cursor
                $cursor = ora_open($connection);
                                        
                $query  = "SELECT * FROM table ";
                $query .= "ORDER BY date1";
                
                // Parse Cursor
                ora_parse($cursor, $query);

                if ( ora_exec($cursor) )
                {
                $data = array();
                $field = array();
                        while(ora_fetch_into($cursor, &$field)) 
                                {
                                reset ($field);
                                $data[ $field[0] ]  = $field[1];
                                }
                }
                else 
                {
                        print("** While Attempting To Open Cursor On Query
** <br><br>\n\n");
                        print("Oracle Returned The Following Error:
<br>\n");
                        print(ora_error($cursor));
                        print("<br><br>\n\n");
                        print("Oracle Error Code: ");
                        print(ora_errorcode($cursor));
                }

                // Close Cursor
                Ora_Close($cursor);

        } 
        else 
        {
        print("** While Attempting To Open Connection ** <br><br>\n\n");
        print("Oracle Returned The Following Error: <br>\n");
        print(ora_error($connection));
        print("<br><br>\n\n");
        print("Oracle Error Code: ");
        print(ora_errorcode($connection));
        }
                
        // Disconnect
        Ora_Logoff($connection);

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