I had a problem with ActiveRecords - CI add brackets to the table names - so oracle returns errors.
Here is some info how to fix it :)
first configure your database
My old dns config looks like this
$dsn = array(
'phptype' => 'oci8',
'hostspec' => '192.xx.215.xx',
'service' => 'yyyyy',
'port' => '1521',
'username' => 'zzzzz',
'password' => 'aaaaa'
);
So I added in application\config\database.php
this:
$db['oracle']['hostname'] = "192.xx.215.xx/yyyyy";
$db['oracle']['username'] = "zzzzz";
$db['oracle']['password'] = "ttttt";
$db['oracle']['database'] = "dbname.table";
$db['oracle']['dbdriver'] = "oci8";
$db['oracle']['dbprefix'] = "";
$db['oracle']['pconnect'] = FALSE; //must be false
$db['oracle']['db_debug'] = TRUE;
$db['oracle']['cache_on'] = FALSE;
$db['oracle']['cachedir'] = "";
$db['oracle']['char_set'] = "utf8";
$db['oracle']['dbcollat'] = "utf8_general_ci";
in system\database\drivers\oci8\oci8_driver.php
replace line
return preg_replace('/['.$this->_escape_char.']+/', $this->_escape_char, $str);
with
// remove duplicates if the user already included the escape
$str = preg_replace('/['.$this->_escape_char.']+/', $this->_escape_char, $str);
$str = rtrim($str,'"');
$str = ltrim($str,'"');
$str = str_replace('"."', '.', $str);
return $str;
Now i your model you can call
$this->oracle = $this->load->database('oracle', TRUE);
Now Oracle and Ci should works! :)