Cannot connect toORACLE with Zend Server Community Edition on WINXP

Question

Hi,
i installed Zend Server Community Edition v 5.0.3 on my computer as developer environment before copy to server and when i trying connect to Oracle i got this error in php log:
PHP Warning: 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 in index.php on line 17
example of my php code is:
$conn = oci_connect('aaaa', 'aaaa', 'localhost/orcl');
if (!$conn) {
$e = oci_error();
echo "chyba:". $e['code']." ".$e['message']."<br>";
Zend Server Community Edition v 5.0.3 have built in oracle client libraries and i have some others Oracle clients for use with forms6i an others.
thanks for help

Answer 1

You have a PATH clash between the different versions of the Oracle libraries.
It's a common issue with doing any kind of development on Windows, and I'm beginning to think the real solution is to use Linux or Solaris.
Somehow you need to fiddle with the PATH setting so that Zend Server doesn't see the other Oracle libraries.
Something like http://blogs.oracle.com/opal/2010/06/using_php_oci8_with_32-bit_php.html.