How to install php-oci8 (x86_64)

A module for PHP applications that use OCI8 databases

License: PHP Vendor: GetPageSpeed LLC http://www.php.net/

Install

sudo yum -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
sudo amazon-linux-extras install epel
sudo yum -y install php-oci8

Description

The php-oci8 packages provides the OCI8 extension version 2.2.0 and the PDO driver to access Oracle Database. The extension is linked with Oracle client libraries 21.13 (Oracle Instant Client). For details, see Oracle's note "Oracle Client / Server Interoperability Support" (ID 207303.1). You must install libclntsh.so.21.1 to use this package, provided by Oracle Instant Client RPM available from Oracle on: https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html Documentation is at http://php.net/oci8 and http://php.net/pdo_oci

RPMs

Package	Size	Built	Changes
php-oci8-7.2.34-37.amzn2.x86_64	129 KiB	2026-10-30	Danila Vershinin - fix CVE-2026-7258 (GHSA-m8rr-4c36-8gq4): pass unsigned char to · ctype.h functions tree-wide · - php -v and phpinfo Build Provider show the package release
php-oci8-7.2.34-36.amzn2.x86_64	129 KiB	2026-10-29	Danila Vershinin - complete the #81720 fix (CVE-2022-31625): pg_* parameter conversion · failure no longer frees uninitialized entries in the two remaining functions
php-oci8-7.2.34-35.amzn2.x86_64	129 KiB	2026-10-27	Danila Vershinin - support a license file at /etc/getpagespeed/license.jwt
php-oci8-7.2.34-33.amzn2.x86_64	129 KiB	2026-10-26	Danila Vershinin - add RuntimeDirectory=php-fpm to the base-shape unit (RHEL parity): · systemd recreates /run/php-fpm on every service start