Requirements
Make sure met the following requirements:
Free account on Oracle website to download Oracle Instant Client and SDK files,
Full sudo access to your server,
PHP 5.6 and web server installed (tested with nginx and PHP-FPM).
Install Oracle Instant Client and SDK
Step 1
Download the Oracle Instant Client and SDK from Oracle website. Make sure you choose the correct architecture for your Ubuntu installation (32bit is x86, 64bit is x86_64). You’ll need to upload the files to your server using whatever method suits you.
Step 2
Create a new folder to store Oracle Instant Client zip files on your server.mkdir /opt/oracle
Upload the Instant Clients files inside this folder.
Step 3
Now we need to extract the files.cd /opt/oracle
unzip instantclient-basic-linux-12.1.0.2.0.zip
unzip instantclient-sdk-linux-12.1.0.2.0.zip
Step 4
Next, we need to create a symlink to Instant Client files.ln -s /opt/oracle/instantclient_12_1/libclntsh.so.12.1 /opt/oracle/instantclient_12_1/libclntsh.so
ln -s /opt/oracle/instantclient_12_1/libocci.so.12.1 /opt/oracle/instantclient_12_1/libocci.so
Step 5
Add the folder to our ldconfig.echo /opt/oracle/instantclient_12_1 > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/oracle-instantclient
Step 6
Update the Dynamic Linker Run-Time Bindingsldconfig
Done. Now we can proceed to the next part.
Install Additional Packages
To install the OCI8 extension, we need to install some additional package on our server.
Step 1
Run these command:apt-get install php-pear php5-dev build-essential libaio1
Step 2
Once installed, we need to get the OCI8 file.pecl install oci8-2.0.10
When you are prompted for the Instant Client location, enter the following:instantclient,/opt/oracle/instantclient_12_1
Step 3
We need to tell PHP to load the OCI8 extension.echo "extension = oci8.so" >> /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
echo "extension = oci8.so" >> /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
Step 4
Restart your apache/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Now you can connect to Oracle DBMS from your PHP applications.