Oracle and php 5.4 doesn't work

Question

Description:
I was using php 5.3 with oracle client 11g and everything works fine. I have a wep app already in production with php5.3. I tried upgrade to php5.4, so I install in another folder XAMPP 1.8 who uses php 5.4. I tried everything to make oracle works, but I cannot connect in the database. Its really strange because in the same machine with the same remote database php 5.3 works just fine.
I am using in php 5.3 o php_oci8.dll with oracle client 11g
and with php5.4 I tried use php_oci8.dll. The error is:
ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified
after I tried php_oci8_11g.dll and the the error is:
ORA-24315: illegal attribute type
I on a Windows Vista 64bit Machine,
Both php are 32bis,
oracle client is 32bits
The database is in another machine.
I think that everything that you need to simulate the problem is install XAMPP 1.8, enable php_oci8.dll and try run the test script.
Test script:
print_r(get_loaded_extensions());
print_r(get_extension_funcs('oci8'));
echo system('env');
echo "Client Version: " . oci_client_version();
print_r(oci_pconnect(DBUSER, DBPASSWORD, DBTNS));
print_r(oci_error());
die();
Expected result:
I was expecting that the oci_pconnect works, because the same script with php 5.3, works.
Actual result:
Array
[0] => Core
[1] => bcmath
[2] => calendar
[3] => com_dotnet
[4] => ctype
[5] => date
[6] => ereg
[7] => filter
[8] => ftp
[9] => hash
[10] => iconv
[11] => json
[12] => mcrypt
[13] => SPL
[14] => odbc
[15] => pcre
[16] => Reflection
[17] => session
[18] => standard
[19] => mysqlnd
[20] => tokenizer
[21] => zip
[22] => zlib
[23] => libxml
[24] => dom
[25] => PDO
[26] => bz2
[27] => SimpleXML
[28] => wddx
[29] => xml
[30] => xmlreader
[31] => xmlwriter
[32] => apache2handler
[33] => Phar
[34] => mbstring
[35] => exif
[36] => gd
[37] => gettext
[38] => mysql
[39] => mysqli
[40] => oci8
[41] => pdo_mysql
[42] => pdo_sqlite
[43] => soap
[44] => sockets
[45] => sqlite3
[46] => xmlrpc
[47] => xsl
[48] => mhash
Array
[0] => oci_define_by_name
[1] => oci_bind_by_name
[2] => oci_bind_array_by_name
[3] => oci_field_is_null
[4] => oci_field_name
[5] => oci_field_size
[6] => oci_field_scale
[7] => oci_field_precision
[8] => oci_field_type
[9] => oci_field_type_raw
[10] => oci_execute
[11] => oci_cancel
[12] => oci_fetch
[13] => oci_fetch_object
[14] => oci_fetch_row
[15] => oci_fetch_assoc
[16] => oci_fetch_array
[17] => ocifetchinto
[18] => oci_fetch_all
[19] => oci_free_statement
[20] => oci_internal_debug
[21] => oci_num_fields
[22] => oci_parse
[23] => oci_new_cursor
[24] => oci_result
[25] => oci_client_version
[26] => oci_server_version
[27] => oci_statement_type
[28] => oci_num_rows
[29] => oci_close
[30] => oci_connect
[31] => oci_new_connect
[32] => oci_pconnect
[33] => oci_error
[34] => oci_free_descriptor
[35] => oci_lob_save
[36] => oci_lob_import
[37] => oci_lob_size
[38] => oci_lob_load
[39] => oci_lob_read
[40] => oci_lob_eof
[41] => oci_lob_tell
[42] => oci_lob_truncate
[43] => oci_lob_erase
[44] => oci_lob_flush
[45] => ocisetbufferinglob
[46] => ocigetbufferinglob
[47] => oci_lob_is_equal
[48] => oci_lob_rewind
[49] => oci_lob_write
[50] => oci_lob_append
[51] => oci_lob_copy
[52] => oci_lob_export
[53] => oci_lob_seek
[54] => oci_commit
[55] => oci_rollback
[56] => oci_new_descriptor
[57] => oci_set_prefetch
[58] => oci_set_client_identifier
[59] => oci_set_edition
[60] => oci_set_module_name
[61] => oci_set_action
[62] => oci_set_client_info
[63] => oci_password_change
[64] => oci_free_collection
[65] => oci_collection_append
[66] => oci_collection_element_get
[67] => oci_collection_element_assign
[68] => oci_collection_assign
[69] => oci_collection_size
[70] => oci_collection_max
[71] => oci_collection_trim
[72] => oci_new_collection
[73] => oci_free_cursor
[74] => ocifreecursor
[75] => ocibindbyname
[76] => ocidefinebyname
[77] => ocicolumnisnull
[78] => ocicolumnname
[79] => ocicolumnsize
[80] => ocicolumnscale
[81] => ocicolumnprecision
[82] => ocicolumntype
[83] => ocicolumntyperaw
[84] => ociexecute
[85] => ocicancel
[86] => ocifetch
[87] => ocifetchstatement
[88] => ocifreestatement
[89] => ociinternaldebug
[90] => ocinumcols
[91] => ociparse
[92] => ocinewcursor
[93] => ociresult
[94] => ociserverversion
[95] => ocistatementtype
[96] => ocirowcount
[97] => ocilogoff
[98] => ocilogon
[99] => ocinlogon
[100] => ociplogon
[101] => ocierror
[102] => ocifreedesc
[103] => ocisavelob
[104] => ocisavelobfile
[105] => ociwritelobtofile
[106] => ociloadlob
[107] => ocicommit
[108] => ocirollback
[109] => ocinewdescriptor
[110] => ocisetprefetch
[111] => ocipasswordchange
[112] => ocifreecollection
[113] => ocinewcollection
[114] => ocicollappend
[115] => ocicollgetelem
[116] => ocicollassignelem
[117] => ocicollsize
[118] => ocicollmax
[119] => ocicolltrim
Client Version: 11.1.0.6.0
<b>Warning</b>: oci_pconnect(): in <b>C:\xampp18\htdocs\config\aguaCheiro.php</b> on line <b>25</b>
Array
=> 24315
    [message] => ORA-24315: invalid atribute type
    [offset] => 0
    [sqltext] =>

Answer 1

It strongly sounds like you have multiple versions of Oracle libraries and are seeing some kind of clash.