Is it possible to have a fully working PDO_OCI on PHP 5.4/5.5 under Linux?

Question

PHP

There is a fairly large news project that has been developed in Java + Oracle since 2006, and now it is being transferred to php in parts, there is no way to refuse Oracle until all parts are transferred. Propel was chosen as the ORM, because Doctine 2 is having trouble generating models from the current database. To work with Oracle, Propel requires PDO_OCI (the extension is marked as experimental, but despite this it is supplied in the php sources). I built it for myself on OSX with php 5.4 and oracle instant client 10.2.0.4 and have not noticed any problems so far. However, the hosting provider of the project cannot make an assembly in which the display of CLOB fields would work (tried different versions of php and oracle instant client).

Actually the question is: did any of the Khabrovites come across pdo_oci under linux and are there any other options for solving the problem (another orm using oci8, something else)?

Answer 1

I won’t say about pdo_oci, but oci8 for php on Ubuntu 12 works completely for me