Oracle & PHP
Does anyone have any experience in connecting PHP & Oracle backends?(I'm very experienced in PHP/MySQL applications. I simply need to connect to an Oracle one now

Any common pitfalls or mistakes?
Any major differences b/twn the creation of the interfaces?
I know the differences b/twn Oracle & MySQL from a DB standpoint I just wish to use PHP as the front-end scripting language instead of using Oracle's stored procedure methods (personal prefernce and the desire not to learn a new language in 2 weeks to complete a simple assignment)
Any help would be greatly appreciated....
Also... just to throw one more wrench into the gears...
The servers are in completely different locales (DB w/ one host and the PHP server on the other)
With a great deal of begging I might be able to get PHP on the Oracle machine but, I'm not 100% sure but, for now that's the situation I'm looking at...
Thanks in advance...