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Stand Alone Usage
This documentation demonstrates how to use the package outside of Laravel.
- add 
"yajra/laravel-oci8": "6.0.*"on your composer then runcomposer install - create 
database.phpand add the code below 
require 'vendor/autoload.php'; use Illuminate\Database\Capsule\Manager as Capsule;use Yajra\Oci8\Connectors\OracleConnector;use Yajra\Oci8\Oci8Connection; $capsule = new Capsule; $manager = $capsule->getDatabaseManager();$manager->extend('oracle', function($config){    $connector = new OracleConnector();    $connection = $connector->connect($config);    $db = new Oci8Connection($connection, $config["database"], $config["prefix"]);     // set oracle session variables    $sessionVars = [        'NLS_TIME_FORMAT'         => 'HH24:MI:SS',        'NLS_DATE_FORMAT'         => 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS',        'NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT'    => 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS',        'NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT' => 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS TZH:TZM',        'NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS'  => '.,',    ];     // Like Postgres, Oracle allows the concept of "schema"    if (isset($config['schema']))    {        $sessionVars['CURRENT_SCHEMA'] = $config['schema'];    }     $db->setSessionVars($sessionVars);     return $db;}); $capsule->addConnection(array(    'driver'   => 'oracle',    'host'     => 'oracle.host',    'database' => 'xe',    'username' => 'user',    'password' => 'password',    'prefix'   => '',    'port'  => 1521)); $capsule->bootEloquent();
Set the event dispatcher used by Eloquent models (Optional).
use Illuminate\Events\Dispatcher;use Illuminate\Container\Container;$capsule->setEventDispatcher(new Dispatcher(new Container)); // Make this Capsule instance available globally via static methods... (optional)$capsule->setAsGlobal();
Now we can start working with database tables just like we would if we were using Laravel!
require 'database.php'; // Create the User modelclass User extends Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model {    public $timestamps = false;} // Grab a user with an id of 1$user = User::find(1); echo $user->toJson(); die();