Re: PHP Startup: Invalid library (maybe not a PHP library) 'oci8.so' in Unknown on line 0

[Christopher Jones <christopher.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>]

pmenier wrote:
> Alejandro Vargas a écrit :
>> Hello, I need to access an oracle database from php. The server is
>> running php 5.2.5, then I downloaded the source package used to
>> compile this version.
>>
>> I downloaded also oracle-instantclient11.1-basic-11.1.0.7.0-1.i386.rpm
>> and oracle-instantclient11.1-devel-11.1.0.7.0-1.i386.rpm
>>
>> After some time tewaking with ./configure of php, I managed to compile
>> with ./configure --with-oci8=shared,instantclient
>>
>> I want to compile oci8 as shared library so I can continue using the
>> same binaries and only add a .so to the extensions directory, but I
>> has a problem now. When starting, php reports this error:
>>
>> PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Invalid library (maybe not a PHP library)
>> 'oci8.so'  in Unknown on line 0
>>
>> Checking the mailing lists I read this problema may be due to an
>> incorrect version of the extension, but it has been compiled with the
>> same sources version that phpinfo() reports (5.2.5).
>>
>> I will appreciate any ideas of how to check now.
>>
>>
>>
> Hello
>
> I have done this job succesfully with php-5.2.{6,7,8,9,10} on debian-lenny.
>
> root@server:/# rpm -iv oracle-instantclient-basic-10.2.0.3-1.i386.rpm
> root@server:/# rpm -iv oracle-instantclient-devel-10.2.0.3-1.i386.rpm
>
> When i compile php, i run .configure -with-other-options
> --with-oci8=shared,instantclient,/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.3/client/lib
>
> Then you must add this:
>
> root@server:/etc/ld.so.conf.d# cat oracle.conf
> /usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.3/client/lib
>
> Then run: ldconfig -v
>
> Note you will have ton install libaio, too.
>
> HTH
> Patrick
>
> ps: i run php in cgi mode.
>

Changing ld.so.conf.d might cause all Oracle applications on the
machine to use the same Instant Client. This is generally OK, but if
you don't want it, you could instead set LD_LIBRARY_PATH before
starting Apache.  See
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/notes/technote_php_instant.html
Also see "Setting Oracle Environment Variables for Apache" on p106 of
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/php/pdf/underground-php-oracle-manual.pdf

Installing OCI8 as a shared library makes it easy to upgrade.  With
PHP 5.2, I strongly recommend using the latest OCI8 1.3 from
http://pecl.php.net/package/oci8

Regarding installation of OCI8 as a shared library, there shouldn't be
any need to tweak configure scripts.  This blog post documents using
the PECL installer:
http://blogs.oracle.com/opal/2009/03/pecl_install_prompts_explained.html

Chris

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