UPDATE (3/8/2010) I installed Xdebug and have it tracing my code. This is the output I am getting:

TRACE START [2010-03-08 17:53:05]
    0.2090     327864   -> {main}() /data/aims3/http/octest.php:0
    0.2091     327988     -> ini_set(string(14), string(1)) /data/aims3/http/octest.php:3
    0.2093     327920     -> error_reporting(long) /data/aims3/http/octest.php:4
    0.2094     328048     -> oci_connect(string(8), string(8), string(25)) /data/aims3/http/octest.php:6

The trace halts at that point.

I have installed everything the same way on a local server and it works fine. To say I am at a complete loss would be putting it lightly.

*NOTE: I ran make test and it returned FAIL on every test. I never ran this on my working machine to see if it reports the same errors. Any idea why make test would report FAIL but make doesn't report any error?

I've installed the Oracle Instantclient with no reported errors along with the OCI8 PECL package and at a loss. Whenever I try to open a connection with oci_connect, it halts my entire PHP script.

EXAMPLE:

<?php
ini_set ("display_errors", "1");
error_reporting(E_ALL);
echo "before";
$conn = oci_connect("username", "password", "host");
echo "after";
?>

Returns a complete blank page. The module is loaded (seen in phpinfo) and everything installed with no errors.

I am at a complete loss.

CentOS: 5.4

Apache: 2.2.3

PHP: 5.3.1

InstantClient: 11.2

oci8: 1.4.1

Any thoughts?

NOTES

Apache Error Log reports nothing

Attempted Debugging:

1:

<?php
ini_set ("display_errors", "1");
error_reporting(E_ALL);
echo "before";
if(!function_exists('oci_connect')) die('Oracle Not Installed');
echo "after";
?>

Returns:

beforeafter

2:

Changing host to //host

Returns:

Same error