title: Can I improve oci8 performance using PHP7?
body: <p>My tools are as follows</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Ubuntu server 16</li>
  <li>PHP7</li>
  <li>oci8</li>
  <li>codeigniter</li>
  <li>Oracle DB</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I have php7 with oci8 successfully running by installing the basic and devel .rpm files from oracle's website. </p>
  
  <p>I'm able to successfully connect to my oracle database and return data through my webpage. </p>
  
  <p>The issue I'm having is the time to execute the query is about twice as long as it is on my PRD server that is using an ODBC connection and a driver from actual oracle on OS X (Mac). I'm not sure why the performance would be twice as slow. Especially considering this server's hardware capabilities are much more powerful. </p>
  
  <p>Any help is greatly appreciated. </p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: After actually measuring the execution times alone, it looks like they truly are faster on the new server. The page load seems to be slower because of codeigniter's oci8 driver, I'd have to guess.</p>