php.net |  support |  documentation |  report a bug |  advanced search |  search howto |  statistics |  random bug |  login

go to bug id or search bugs for

Bug #20854 Unable to load dynamic library
Submitted: 2002-12-06 03:24 UTC Modified: 2006-07-17 08:27 UTC
From: pardy at freemail dot hu Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: OCI8 related
PHP Version: 4.2.3 OS: Windows 2000 Server
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
View Developer Edit
 [2002-12-06 03:24 UTC] pardy at freemail dot hu 
PHP 4.2.3 is running with IIS 5 on W2k server.
Oracle client v6 is installed and working properly.
The error message is the following:
PHP Warning: Unable to load dynamic library 'c:\php\extensions\php_oci8.dll' - The specified module could not be found. in Unknown on line 0
Also tried with php_oracle.dll but the result is the same.
I'm sure the dlls are there. gds32.dll is in system32.
Dependency walker stops at apphelp.dll - as it is not an XP.

Patches

Pull Requests

History

AllCommentsChangesGit/SVN commitsRelated reports
 [2002-12-06 06:25 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself.  For a
list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please
visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the
appropriate forum for asking support questions. 

Thank you for your interest in PHP.
 [2002-12-06 06:55 UTC] pardy at freemail dot hu 
How can you be so sure that this is not a bug in php? I mean everything else seems ok.
Then you must know where the problem is. What about telling me?

Thanks
 [2002-12-06 18:35 UTC] sniper@php.net 
This is not a support forum.
 [2002-12-07 02:35 UTC] pardy at freemail dot hu 
Ok, I have posted the problem description to php-db-help@lists.php.net. Please answer me there.
By the way I still don't know why this isn't a bug in php.
Maybe I don't understand what "php itself" means.

Thanks.
 [2004-02-12 05:03 UTC] giunta dot gaetano at sea-aeroportimilano dot it 
I had exactly the same headache with Oracle9 client.
The funniest thing is Apache was running fine in exactly the same PC.

It actually is a pbl related to IIS confioguration.
The solution is: in IIS uncheck the "let IIS validate anon user password" in anoun user auth panel.

Rationale: check out reports 216828 e  218756 on MSDN.
 [2004-03-11 03:19 UTC] olympic at dino-online dot de 
Some people here seem to be very ignorant to this
PHP-bug (!!).
On a w2k server (With servicepacks and IE6.x installed) you cant run the php distribution
because most extension dlls have a dependency to apphelp.dll.
Easy to say "its a windows problem" (I know that the dependency comes from a windows dll SHLWAPI.DLL) - but
you expect a software that is marked to run with w2k to
work...
I know that php isn't a comercial product but this
does not mean that developers should stop 
investigating a bug report when they find a MS-dll 
that they didnt write...
For "normal" users there is no workaround without help
from php developers and changes to the distribution.
Noone here is asking a "support question" its a bug or
remove "runs on windows 2000 server"
 
PHP Copyright © 2001-2025 The PHP Group
All rights reserved. 		Last updated: Fri May 09 03:01:30 2025 UTC