php: loading oracle driver gives error “Unable to load dynamic library - The specified procedure could not be found.”

Question

I seem to have a strange problem with PHP.

I\'ve migrated a bunch of software from one server to another. On the server some scripts make a connection to Oracle, so

Answer 1

Seems like I figured it out and can answer my own question. It looks like XAMPP is delivering a non-suitable ddl with their distribution. The right and most recent oci8 dll's are downloadable here in all possible flavors: http://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/releases/oci8/2.0.8/. Once I got the right one, it worked like a charm.

Answer 2

XAMPP comes with PHP compilled with ThreadSafe, so you have to download the file from this directory:

http://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/releases/oci8/2.0.8/ …

Before you paste the 3 DLLs to C:\xampp\php\ext*, append ".old*" to each file. Be sure you have enabled the good DLL according to your version of your Oracle database in the file php.ini. Finally, Restart Apache.