Installation
Since PHP 5.0 this extension was bundled with PHP. Beginning with PHP 5.4,
this extension is available only via PECL.
Windows users must enable php_sqlite.dll inside
of php.ini in order to use these functions.
A DLL for this
PECL extension is currently unavailable. See also the
building on Windows
section.
Windows builds must also enable PDO because as of PHP 5.1.0 it depends
on it. So, php.ini will end up with something like this:
On Linux or Unix operating systems, if you build PDO as a shared
extension, you must build SQLite as a shared extension using the
--with-sqlite=shared configure option.
The PHP 5.0.x series of Windows builds enabled this extension by
default, where no DLL file is necessary.
SQLite 3 is supported through PDO SQLite.
Note:
Windows installation for unprivileged accounts
On Windows operating systems, unprivileged accounts don't have the
TMP environment variable set by default. This will
make sqlite create temporary files in the windows directory, which is
not desirable. So, you should set the TMP environment
variable for the web server or the user account the web server is
running under. If Apache is your web server, you can accomplish this via
a SetEnv directive in your httpd.conf file. For
example:
If you are unable to establish this setting at the server
level, you can implement the setting in your script:
The setting must refer to a directory that the web server
has permission to create files in and subsequently write
to and delete the files it created.
Otherwise, you may receive the following error message:
malformed database schema -
unable to open a temporary database file for storing temporary tables