OCI 1.2.5 was released recently and has an impressive list of fixes. One of the most important items for me was the support for RPM installs and 64-bit RPMs.
What that means in plain English: You can now grab RPMs from Oracle website for Oracle Instant Client. Install them as you normally would and then do
pear install pecl/oci8 and just say
instantclient and be done with it.
I actually tested this today on my development box at work. I did it as an upgrade though. The whole process now takes less than 2 minutes and I'll describe it here.
NOTE: I assume you already have Oracle Instant Client setup and configured. If not then see
Part 1 and
Part 2.
1. Do
pear upgrade pecl/oci8.
2. You will be prompted with an option to provide instant client lib directory:
a. enter 1 - NOTE: Don't select autodetect as this never worked for me.
b. enter
instantclient.
c. press Enter to continue.
3. At this point it should combine and install the oci8.so
I noticed one weird thing on my box. I got a segmentation fault at the end of the install process. I restarted apache (
service httpd restart) and things seem to work fine.
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