SQLite (PDO)

&reftitle.intro; &warn.experimental; PDO_SQLITE is a driver that implements the PHP Data Objects (PDO) interface to enable access to SQLite 2 and SQLite 3 databases.

PDO_SQLITE DSN Connecting to SQLite databases &reftitle.description; The PDO_SQLITE Data Source Name (DSN) is composed of the following elements: DSN prefix (SQLite 3) The DSN prefix is sqlite:. To access a database on disk, append the absolute path to the DSN prefix. To create a database in memory, append memory: to the DSN prefix. DSN prefix (SQLite 2) While the default and recommended SQLite version in PDO_SQLITE is version 3, the driver also supports accessing and creating SQLite 2 databases. This enables you to access databases you may have created with the SQLite extension in previous versions of PHP. The DSN prefix for connecting to SQLite 2 databases is sqlite2:. To access a database on disk, append the absolute path to the DSN prefix. To create a database in memory, append memory: to the DSN prefix. &reftitle.examples; The following examples show PDO_SQLITE DSN for connecting to SQLite databases: