07:53 ale 

PHP dropped support for Oracle8 client library.

13:21 garga 

Add databases/php5-oci8:

This port adds support for OCI8 PHP shared extension. It replaces the old
Oracle shared extension which is obsolete and will be dropped (moved to
PECL) in PHP 5.1. This patch also corrects dependency for the Oracle shared
extension (added Oracle client in RUN_DEPENDS).

PR:             ports/86580
Submitted by:   Simun Mikecin <numisemis at yahoo.com>