OCI8 is an extension for providing APIs to Oracle database management system. You need
Apache,
PHP and
Oracle Instant Client.
Register and
Download Oracle Instant Client.
Choose your platform compatibility (in my case x64), if the package not compatible with
your platform then installation process will failed. At least, we just
need
Basic and
SDK. Then put on /opt/oracle or whatever directory did you liked:
mkdir /oracle_client
mkdir /opt/oracle
cd /opt/oracle
unzip instantclient-basic-linux.x64-11.2.0.3.0.zip
unzip instantclient-sdk-linux.x64-11.2.0.3.0.zip
mv /opt/instantclient_11_2/* /oracle_client/
Create
symbolic links for dinamic library and Add instant client to system ld:
cd /oracle_client
ln -s libclntsh.so.11.1 libclntsh.so
ln -s libocci.so.11.1 libocci.so
Compiling OCI8 and enter
instantclient,/oracle_client when you are prompted:
pecl install oci8
Enable oci8 extension on
php.ini or add it to php Conf:
vim /etc/php5/conf.d/oci8.ini
and add this line to file:
extension=oci8.so
then restart apache2 web server.
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Then check
phpinfo() and the successfull installation should be :
When you get this error:
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20090626/oci8.so' - libaio.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
you should install
libaio:
apt-get install libaio1