Oops - I had the args the wrong way round in the strstr calls !!  Heres the newer version (bug 957's patch is wrong) :-

When constructing a query for Oracle containing user supplied values ora_Parse will break if the user entered a value containing a ' such seaching an Oracle database for occurences of Bill's House.  PHP quotes the single ' in the variable containg the search criteria with a \ (it becomes Bill\' House), oracle needs single a single quote to be quoted with another ' (it should be Bill''s House).  The following patch will change a PHP quoted \' to a '' for submission to the Oracle SQL parse function.

--- oracle.c.orig       Mon Oct  5 01:22:29 1998
+++ oracle.c    Mon Nov 30 11:19:25 1998
@@ -709,7 +709,7 @@
        pval *argv[3];
        oraCursor *cursor;
        sword defer = 0;
-       text *query;
+       text *query, *quote;
 
        argc = ARG_COUNT(ht);
        if ((argc != 2 && argc != 3) || getParametersArray(ht, argc, argv) == FAILURE) {
@@ -738,6 +738,11 @@
        if (cursor->query) {
                efree(cursor->query);
        }
+
+       quote = query;
+       while ((quote = strstr(quote, "\\\'")) != NULL)
+               *quote = '\'';
+
        cursor->query = query;
        cursor->fetched = 0;
        if(cursor->params && cursor->nparams > 0){
@@ -925,7 +930,7 @@
        pval *argv[2];
        oraConnection *conn = NULL;
        oraCursor *cursor = NULL;
-       text *query;
+       text *query, *quote;
 
        if (ARG_COUNT(ht) != 2 || getParametersArray(ht, 2, argv) == FAILURE) {
                WRONG_PARAM_COUNT;
@@ -962,8 +967,12 @@
                RETURN_FALSE;
        }
        cursor->open = 1;
-       cursor->conn_ptr = conn;
-
+       cursor->conn_ptr = conn;
+
+       quote = query;
+       while ((quote = strstr(quote, "\\\'")) != NULL)
+               *quote = '\'';
+
        /* Prepare stmt */
 
        if (oparse(&cursor->cda, query, (sb4) - 1, 1, VERSION_7)){