oci_error() undefined error - MediaWiki-l

19 Sep 2014


      Installed MediaWiki (git master) with Oracle 11 as the database. Post
installation, the MainPage does not display but shows instead:
Warning: oci_parse() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given
in ...MediaWiki/includes/db/DatabaseOracle.php on line 1266 Warning:
oci_error() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given in
...MediaWiki/includes/db/DatabaseOracle.php on line 1271
Now, I assume I can ignore these warnings, so I attempted to run
../maintenance/update.php --quick and received:
MediaWiki 1.24alpha Updater
PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function oci_error() in
...MediaWiki/includes/db/DatabaseOracle.php on line 522
Fatal error: Call to undefined function oci_error() in
...MediaWiki/includes/db/DatabaseOracle.php on line 522
The code at line 522 is:
function lastError() {
                if ( $this->mConn === false ) {
                        $e = oci_error();
                } else {
                        $e = oci_error( $this->mConn );
                }
return $e['message'];
        }
Why isn't oci_error() defined if oci8 is installed?