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Grid usage with Oracle

Hello,

I am considering using this grid for a intranet application. Is it possible to use it on an Oracle database? Are there any examples on how to do this laying around?

Thanks

The component are fully client side and can operate with data only inside the browser, they has not access to local file system and can't save and read data from it. 

While component is fully client side, it can't be attached directly to database, but in version 2.1 it contains connectors
        http://dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtmlxConnector/index.shtml
, using which and optional PDO addition 
         http://dhtmlx.com/docs/products/kb/index.php?s=normal&q=8711
allows to connect client side component to database with few lines of code

This is indeed what I am looking for, but I need to work with an Oracle database.  I found in the documentation that v.1.0 works with mySQL and postgreSQL only.  Is this the current version?  Is Oracle a supposted database now?

Thanks!

You can use PDO connection type ( link for PDO DB connector posted above )
PDO allows to connect to few types of databases, including Oracle

http://php.net/pdo
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-oci.php

We have an separate extension for Oracle, but it not finished yet, please inform if connection to Oracle through PDO can't be used in your case

I am trying, but I am having a problem initializing the GridConnector object.  The default type is MySQL, what argument should be passed to use PDO?

$gridConn = new GridConnector($res,"????");

Thanks

Sorry for inconvenience , one of above links was incorrect
Please check 
http://dhtmlx.com/docs/products/kb/index.shtml?cat=search&page=1&q=8438&ssr=yes&s=PDO

 $dbh = new PDO(...);
   
  require("../../codebase/grid_connector.php");
  require("../../codebase/db_pdo.php");
   
  $grid = new GridConnector($dbh,"PDO"); //same for other connector objects

Things seem to be working properly now.

One question though:  I can't seem to be able to use the dynamic loading because by defaut, the SQL that gets generated uses the syntax 'LIMIT 0, 100'.  That syntax is not part of the Oracle dialect and the query errors out.  Is it a PDO problem, or something that should be corrected within your objects?

The smart rendering works though.  If I use a table that is reasonably large (a few 100's of records), I have no problem.  If I use a table that has 10,000's or records, the script times out.

>>Is it a PDO problem
Component uses similar SQL syntax for all databases attached through PDO , and as result may fail if target DB doesn't support "LIMIT" instruction ( it used for dyn. loading only )

We will check possibility to extend current functionality. Updated PDO connector or separate connector for Oracle will be available in few days.

Great, thank you.  Please keep me posted.

Updated version of db_pdo.php attached to email, just use it instead of previous version. 
With new file, connector will generate oracle-valid queries in dyn. loading mode. 

( This is not final version of pdo connector, because, while it works with oracle, now it causes problems for other DB types; but must be enough to resolve your problem )