Many developers have been won over by the elegance and efficiency of PHP5's implementation of object-orientation, and are equally drawn to the power and robustness of the world's foremost database, Oracle. However, taking the next logical step—storing PHP objects in your database for Web application development—can be intimidating.

In a new HowTo titled "Persisting PHP5 Objects in Oracle" from The Oracle+PHP Cookbook , you will learn how to store and retrieve PHP5 objects as objects in an Oracle Database via an object persistence layer (available in the OracleDatabaseObject package download). This technique allows any Oracle developer to take the final step toward full object-orientation in their Web applications—and hence toward a renewed focus on application logic, rather than messy SQL and coding.