title: How to enable oci in xampp 5.6.3?
body: <p>I am facing some issue while starting Apache server via XAMPP. I have installed XAMPP Version 5.6.3.</p>
  
  <p>When I start the Apache server from xampp control panel, an error message is displayed as shown below:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/bjXDL.png" alt="Figure-1"></p>
  
  <p>On clicking 'OK' button, another dialog box is displayed as shown:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/DJqRq.png" alt="Figure-2"> </p>
  
  <p>The thing is I wanted to use OCI instead of mysql. so I have commented out the mysql extensions and uncommented the OCI extension in <strong>php.ini</strong> file.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/DOChL.png" alt="Figure-3"></p>
  
  <p>The <em>php_oci8_12c.dll</em> file is the only file available in the extensions (ext) folder of php in xampp. Hence I included the line in the php.ini as shown in the above image.</p>
  
  <p>Since then I am getting this error.</p>
  
  <p>I have installed instant client 12.1 as well but no luck. I also tried copying the OCI.dll from instantclient_12_1 and pasting it in c:/xampp/php and c:/xampp/apache/bin. The error still persists.</p>
  
  <p>Need help..</p>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> I removed other oracle paths in PATH of environment variables, keeping only the instantclient path. Now I am getting this error..</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/taPdM.png" alt="Figure-4"></p>