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Phalcon cannot find oracle driver

I am attempting to connect to an oracle database, however, i keep getting: "PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PDOException' with message 'could not find driver'

I can connect to the oracle database via vanilla PHP just fine (using oci pconnect) but gonig through Phalcon, no such luck.

My connection is:

<?php
    $connection = new \Phalcon\Db\Adapter\Pdo\Oracle(array(
        'dbname' => "(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = external-host.com)(PORT = 1521))) (CONNECT_DATA=(SID=A.B)))",
        'username' => 'USERNAME',
        'password' => 'PASSWORD',
        'charset' => 'AL32UTF8',
        'options' => [PDO::ATTR_CASE => PDO::CASE_LOWER, PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT => TRUE,],
    ));

This is oracle 12.1 on Ubuntu 14. I have the oracle client installed, I can connect to the database via vanilla PHP and via command line, just not through phalcon. Any help is greatly appreciated!!



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As the error message states, PHP PDO cannot recognize your connection string, it's not an issue with Phalcon.

https://php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-oci.connection.php



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edited Nov '15

What should my connection string look like then? The one posted above has documented success, and matching the Phalcon docs: https://docs.phalcon.io/en/latest/api/Phalcon_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Oracle.html

<?php
$arrOr = array(
        "dbname" => "//host:1521/SID",
        "username" => "user",
        "password" => "pass"
       );

    $connection = new \Phalcon\Db\Adapter\Pdo\Oracle($arrOr);

That still throws a cannot find driver error: 'PDOException' with message 'could not find driver'

When I use vanilla PHP:

<?php
$conn = oci_pconnect("user", "pass", "//host:1521/sid" );

All works fine. So I'm still throughly confused as to what I'm doing wrong moving it into the Phalcon framework.



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answer

Finally found an answer on stack: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21936091/how-to-install-oracle-instantclient-and-pdo-oci-on-ubuntu-machine Scroll down to the response that deals with pulling down the source of your version of PHP. I followed those steps, with 2 exceptions:

  1. 12.1 is a listed version in my PHP, so no need to add it to the config.m3
  2. I had to add --with-pdo-oci=instantclient,/path/to/instantclient_12_1,12.1 to the ./configure command other wise, worked great and i'm up and running!