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33Use the PHP OCI8 extension to access Oracle Database.
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5- Documentation is at https://www.php.net/oci8
5+ Documentation is at https://www.php.net/oci8 .
6+
7+ Installation
8+ --------------------
9+ The PHP OCI8 extension is available in the PECL repository [ here] ( https://pecl.php.net/package/oci8 ) .
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711Use ` pecl install oci8 ` to install for PHP 8.2 and PHP 8.3.
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@@ -20,9 +24,14 @@ PHP_DTRACE=yes before running `pecl install oci8`. For example, on Linux:
2024You may additionally need the dtrace-devel or systemtap-sdt-devel package
2125installed.
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23- The PHP OCI8 extension can be linked with Oracle client libraries from Oracle
27+ On Windows, pre-compiled OCI8 DLLs are available for download and quick use from
28+ the [ PECL repository] ( https://pecl.php.net/package/oci8 ) . You may use the DLL directly
29+ by including them in the ` php.ini ` file.
30+ See [ OCI8 installation] ( https://www.php.net/manual/en/oci8.installation.php ) for more details.
31+
32+ The PHP OCI8 extension can be linked with Oracle Client libraries from Oracle
2433Database 11.2 or later. These libraries are found in your database
25- installation, or in the free Oracle Instant Client from
34+ installation, or in the free Oracle Instant Client packages from
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2736 https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/instant-client.html
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3443later. See Oracle Support's note "Oracle Client / Server Interoperability
3544Support" (ID 207303.1) for details.
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46+ Useful Links
47+ ------------
48+
3749A sample configuration php.ini file is at
3850 https://github.com/php/pecl-database-oci8/blob/main/oci8.ini
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