Re: [VuFind-Tech] PDO_OCI - I give up!

[Reuben P. <rd...@au...>]

We eventually got pdo_oci working by building from source
 on Intrepid Ibex.
The notes that we took follow.
It would be great if someone would checkin to subversion the OCI8
version of the Voyager driver.

Good luck!
Reuben

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Just recounting what we did with PDO_OCI, in case we have to do it
again.

Basically PDO_OCI latest version was 2005, so the install scripts have
a little dust on them. I sat with Reuben as he worked out the
installation.

After downloading the PDO_OCI sources, we had to run phpize5 to get the
configure scripts. Reuben also set ORACLE_HOME as an environment
variable, pointing to our Oracle Instant Client folder.

The configure scripts did not find our newer version of Oracle (it only
knew to look for versions up to 10.1) so we changed the script to force
a version number and basically skip that check.

Then we ran "make install". It complained that it couldn't find a few
files, so Reuben found those and changed where the make script was
looking. After that it finished installing and created our pdo_oci.so
(placed in the folder with the other PHP .so files)

We added a new pdo_oci.ini file (that sits in the conf.d folder with
the other extension files) that sets our new pdo_oci.so as an extension.
We restarted Apache2 and it appears to be working -- it's finding
holdings from the Voyager database.

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>>> "Andrew Isherwood [aai]" <aa...@ab...> 6/22/2009 8:34 AM >>>
Hi

I've spent some considerable time trying to get PDO_OCI support
installed for VuFind on Ubuntu Server 9.04. There seems to be no
concise, working instructions anywhere on how to install it and there
has been much banging of head against wall. In a previous message Andrew
mentioned that, due to the difficulties of getting it installed, some
folks have rewritten the Voyager driver to use OCI8. I am tempted to do
the same but thought that, before I did, I'd just ask whether anyone had
one already that would save me reinventing the wheel?

Many thanks
Andrew
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