If you are connecting an Oracle Database using an Apache2 webserver that runs on an Ubuntu machine, you might randomly have this error.

Warning: ocilogon() http://function.ocilogon: OCIEnvNlsCreate() failed. There is something wrong with your system – please check that LD_LIBRARY_PATH includes the directory with Oracle Instant Client libraries.

It can be solved setting properly the environment variable [...]

 
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Get the OCI8 module working on a Mac require several settings. I wrote a script to automate the procedure that install and configure SqlPlus, the Oracle Client v10.2, Apache2, PHP5 and the OCI8 on a Mac OS X running Leopard. The script was tested on a Leopard 10.5.4 machine. I have [...]

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Connecting an Oracle Database via PHP, requires a not easy procedure. The bash scripts OracleViaPHP.sh and TNSconnect.sh will automate the set up process for you.
The scripts are tested on a virtual machine running OS Linux Ubuntu Server 8.04.1 i386 created on a Mac OS X running Leopard 10.5.3. OracleViaPHP.sh will install and configure Apache2, PHP5, the [...]