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Re: [PHP-DOC] #17002 [Com]: Unable to load php_oci8.dll ONLY in command line mode (KMM6095591V11584L0KM) From: abuse <email protected>
Date: 10/03/03

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Original Message Follows:
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 ID: 17002
 Comment by: constantin_baciu at hotmail dot com
 Reported By: dong_peng at sd163 dot net
 Status: Closed
 Bug Type: Documentation problem
 Operating System: Win98
 PHP Version: 4.2.0
 New Comment:

Platform: PHP 4.3.4RC1, Apache2, WindowsXP Pro...

Can't seem to be able to load the extension. Tried EVERYTHING...Help me
please..

Thanx.

Previous Comments:
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[2003-04-01 14:11:34] nelo at icubestudio dot com

According my experience it is not a PATH problem at all. I am trying to
connect to Oracle 9i with PHP 4.2/4.3, Apache 1.3/2.0 without success
for many hours :( I copied OCI.DLL many times almost everywhere, also
PATH is set correctly. Might be problem of PHP, Oracle, or both simply
cannot communicate.

If someone ever succeded running Oracle 9i R2 with PHP please mail me.
Nelo

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[2003-01-17 23:04:42] philip <email protected>

This has now been documented, see:

http://cvs.php.net/cvs.php/phpdoc/en/chapters/install.windows.xml

Thanks for the report :)

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[2002-05-05 12:09:28] sander <email protected>

Hm... it seems to me a good idea to note somewhere in the manual that
PHP (or Windows) searches for DLL's in %PATH% and %SYSTEM%.

Reopening as a documentation problem.

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[2002-05-05 12:04:48] dong_peng at sd163 dot net

Of course, it is NOT a bug of php.

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[2002-05-05 12:01:11] dong_peng at sd163 dot net

After failed many times, I happened to find the cause. I think it maybe
helpful for many people who reported or asked the same question that I
have seen on www.php.net .

    It is the PATH has not been correctly set.
    When loading php_oci8.dll, this DLL file search for the other DLL
file "oci.dll" in current directory, PATH environment and %SYSTEM%(on
Windows). If oci.dll can not be found, the OS will tell you "Unable to
load dynamic library : php_oci8.dll". If you installed Oracle RDBMS on
your system, then the file "oci.dll" is in Oralce Home directory. So
you must include "Oracle Home Directory " in PATH environment, on my
computer it is "D:\Oracle\ora81\Bin". Perhaps, the same problem on
different platform can be solved in same way, try it.
    I am lucky to find the cause in almost ten days, I hope people will
not be worried about this problem any longer.
                                 Dong Peng
                                 Lanzhou Railway Universiy
                                 China
                                 2002-5-6 00:06

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