Okay, so in playing around with some of the somewhat bleeding edge stuff (well, okay, so PDO isn’t that bleeding edge) on my development server, I’m trying to get Oracle support working for a simple script. It doesn’t want to seem to cooperate, and I just wanted to make sure I’m not doing something I shouldn’t be (or are forgetting something) – because it still dosen’t work.

Here’s what I’ve done so far:

• compiled PHP 5.2.0 with:
  • –enable-pdo=shared
  • –with-pdo-oci=shared
  • –with-sqlite=shared
  • –with-pdo-sqlite=shared
• Installed both PDO 1.0.3 and PDO_OCI 1.0 from scratch
• Verified that the modules are in the “ext_dir” specified in the pnp.ini
• added the lines to load them dynamically:
  • extension=pdo.so
  • extension=pdo_oci.so
• When I make a phpinfo() page, it shows both that PDO is loaded and that “PDO Driver for OCI 8 and later” is “enabled”

And, of course, the code:

[php]
$sql=sprintf(‘generic SQL here’);
$arr=array(
‘oci:dbname=DBINTNSNAMES’,
‘user’,
‘pass’
);
$dbh = new PDO($arr[0],$arr[1],$arr[2]);
[/php]

This yields the lovely error message below:
“Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘PDOException’ with message ‘could not find driver’ in /www/web/test/getbal2.php:36 Stack trace: #0 /www/web/test/getbal2.php(36): PDO->__construct(‘oci:dbname=PHIS…’, ‘user’, ‘pass’) #1 {main} thrown in /www/web/test/getbal2.php on line 36

Suggestions? Ideas? Is there something I’m missing?