sqlite_busy_timeout SQLiteDatabase->busyTimeout Set busy timeout duration, or disable busy handlers voidsqlite_busy_timeout resourcedbhandle intmilliseconds Object oriented style (method): SQLiteDatabase voidbusyTimeout intmilliseconds Set the maximum time that sqlite will wait for a dbhandle to become ready for use to milliseconds. If milliseconds is 0, busy handlers will be disabled and sqlite will return immediately with a SQLITE_BUSY status code if another process/thread has the database locked for an update. PHP sets the default busy timeout to be 60 seconds when the database is opened. busyTimeout(10000); // 10 seconds $dbhandle->busyTimeout(0); // disable ?>]]> There are one thousand (1000) milliseconds in one second. See also sqlite_open.