oci_connect() [function.oci-connect]: OCIEnvNlsCreate() failed. There is something wrong with your system - please check that PATH includes the directory with Oracle Instant Client libraries
Here's how I fixed it....
I had just installed XAMPP on Win XP and wanted to use PHP to connect to an Oracle database. I had not previously installed XAMPP or anything Oracle on the computer - here's how I got OCI8 working...
I downloaded and ran the XAMPP installer & installed to the C:\xampp directory
http://www.apachefriends.org/download.p ... taller.exe
I edited the c:\xampp\php\php.ini and uncommented the following line (by taking out the ';' at the beginning of the line)
;extension=php_oci8.dll
next I downloaded the Oracle 10 instant client (user login required)
http://download.oracle.com/otn/nt/insta ... .2.0.4.zip
unzipped and copied the files into the C:\xampp\apache\bin directory
Finally I restarted Apache... I can now connect to an oracle db using the following:
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$uid = '<uid>';
$pw = '<pw>';
$conn = '//<host>:<port>/<sid>';
$ora_dbh = oci_connect($uid, $pw, $conn);
if (!$ora_dbh) {
$e = oci_error();
die ("Could not connect to Oracle " . $e['message']);
}
Here's example connection string
//mydbhost.example.com:1521/PRODDB
hopes this helps someone as it took me much searching and lots of trial and error.
Regards,
Greg Skluzacek