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Table of Contents
About PHP for Oracle Linux
Available PHP Releases
Installation
Set up Required Repositories
Installing PHP
Updating PHP
Connecting PHP to Oracle Database with the php-oci8 Extension
About Oracle Instant Client
Installing php-oci8
Installing PHP on Oracle Linux 8 via AppStream Modules
PHP in Containers
Getting Help
About PHP for Oracle Linux
The PHP repositories contain the latest builds of stable PHP releases from the community,
including the oci8 extension for the Oracle Database. They are provided without support.
Available PHP Releases
PHP Version Oracle Linux Release Repository/Module Name
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7.4 Oracle Linux 7 ol7_developer_php74
7.4 Oracle Linux 8 php:7.4
7.3 Oracle Linux 8 php:7.3
Installation
These are the steps to install PHP.
Set up Required Repositories
To configure the yum repositories shown above on your system, install the repository setup
packageoracle-php-release-el7. After installing this package, the default enabled
repository is that for the latest available PHP release. To install the repository setup package
for Oracle Linux 7:
$ sudo yum install -y oracle-php-release-el7
Installing PHP
Then, to install the latest available release of PHP on Oracle Linux 7:
$ sudo yum install -y php
Updating PHP
If you have PHP already installed, and a newer release has been published, make sure you
update oracle-php-release-el7 first.
$ sudo yum update oracle-php-release-el7
$ sudo yum update php
Connecting PHP to Oracle Database with the PHP OCI8 Extension
The PHP OCI8 database extention enables access to Oracle Database with support for SQL,
PL/SQL, bind variables, large object (LOB) types as well connection pooling and result
caching features of Oracle Database. Read this blog post for a complete example connecting
a PHP 7.4 application to Oracle Database.
Installing PHP OCI8
Each PHP release has its own repository on Oracle Linux yum server and each of those
repositories also contains a corresponding RPM for the OCI8 extension, built for a specific
major release of Oracle Instant Client. These RPMs follow this naming scheme: php-
oci8<instant client release>. For example, on Oracle Linux 7, the PHP OCI8 RPM for
PHP 7.4 is built with Instant Client 19c and is named: php-oci8-19c. To install it:
$ sudo yum install php-oci8-19c
About Oracle Instant Client
PHP OCI8 depends on Oracle Instant Client. Yum configurations for Oracle Instant Client are
delivered via the oracle-release-el7 and oracle-release-el6 packages
Installing Oracle Instant Client
To install Oracle Instant Client on Oracle Linux 7:
$ sudo yum -y install oracle-release-el7
$ sudo yum -y install oracle-instantclient19.5-basic
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As of Oracle Instant Client 19c, no additional configuration is needed for applications to use
the Oracle client.
Installing PHP on Oracle Linux 8 via AppStream Modules
Oracle Linux 8 introduces the concept of Application Streams, where multiple versions of
user-space components can be delivered and updated more frequently than the core
operating system packages in RPM format or groups of related RPMs called Modules. Oracle
Linux 8 offers several independently updated versions of PHP via Module Streams. For mode
details, please refer to the documentation.
To list available Module Streams for PHP:
$ dnf module list php
To install PHP 7.4 :
$ sudo dnf install @php:7.4
PHP in Containers
On GitHub we provide resources to build your own container images or pull pre-built images,
including:
PHP Command Line Interface tool (PHP CLI)
PHP via FastCGI Process Manager (FPM)
PHP via Apache HTTP Server with mod_php
Variants of each of the above with Oracle Database connectivity via PHP-OCI8
See the reference below to developer and run PHP applications in containers:
Example Dockerfiles for PHP: Oracle Linux 8, Oracle Linux 7
PHP container images on GitHub Container registry: Oracle Linux 8, Oracle Linux 7
Getting Help
For help with PHP on Oracle Linux, please visit the PHP space in the Oracle Developer
Community.
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