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Yay php and Windows.....
Really? On windows?
🤷♂️ some companies like to be tortured.
.. wait, that wasn't a "windows shit, php shit" moment, I've just never enjoyed that combination.
Did you restart Apache/nginx/iis or which ever you're using?
Have you started the oracle database service -> so many people miss this step.
Can you connect outside of php? -
@C0D4 i have no clue why the other retard opted for this shit.
Yes we can connect to oracle from other services. You know the php --ini cli command? It literally tells me that it cannot find the oci8 module especified in the .ini file -
@AleCx04 this be unusual.
Unless there's another .ini file...
The dll is in path\to\php\ext\ ?
I suspect it will be but you know....
If you downloaded the dll, check it doesn't have the blocked tickbox in properties.
Outside of that.... well nope that should actually work 🙁 -
@C0D4 i have tried literally everything man.
Imagine trying to read a file from a location, you have everything correct and it still not fucking works. That is literally the issue. I fucking hate this -
@lamka02sk yeah i inow, yeah i did
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@C0D4 PHP/IIS/Win setups are actually pretty straight forward with the PHP Manager for IIS extension.
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@kwilliams it's been a long time since I used a windows server for php.
I gave up when having to deal with back vs forward lashes for paths and some functions having different behaviours between Linux and windows, file_get_contents() for one.
Now that's not to say I don't use windows for local dev, but any running of that code is strictly within a LAMP stack, 99% of the time a VM but some systems will be prod only 🤷♂️
Nothing like testing in production.... am I right?
But having used windows in the past, it's a good thing to know the differences in the event you have to deploy to that environment.
Situation:
Php not loading oci8 connector for oracle database in windows server, got the all famous and feated oci_connect unknown function error.
Solution:
Check to make sure that the stupid dll is in the extensions folder ---> check
Check to make sure that the extension_dir path is done properly inside php.ini ---> check
Ensure that extension=php_oci8_11g.dll is inside php.ini ---> check
I have no fucking clue why this piece of shit would stop working all out of the sudden and would not fucking work. But here i am yet AGAIN trying to fix something for the fucking web tech department because their fucking lead dev is out.
I
Fucking
HATE
Having to deal with php configurations. Such a fucking pain in the fucking ass man.
FUUUUCKING WOOOOOORK
rant
fuck this
i went analyst for a fucking reason