Requirements

• XAMPP
• Oracle 10g XE or later
• Oracle Instance Client for 10g or later

Installation

• Install all the software mentioned in the #Requirements section.

• Copy and paste the oracle (which I have provided in this repository) folder to the C:\ drive.

• Set the environment variable C:\oracle\instantclient_10_2\

• Now open this C:\xampp\php\php.ini file and enable extension=pdo_oci by removing ;.

  Example: ;extension=pdo_oci to extension=pdo_oci

• Start the XAMPP software and run the Apache server.

• I have also provided a test.php file. Please copy it into this C:\xampp\htdocs\ folder.

• Open it in your text editor and change your $db_password, which were provided by you during the Oracle database installation.

• For testing, in your browser, go to this URL: https://localhost/test.php. this will show you all the users on the oracle database.

Note: If you want to download other Oracle instance clients depending on which version of Oracle database you have used, you can find them at the below link.

• Oracle Instance Client