how to enable sqlite3 for php?

Question

I am trying to install sqlite3 for PHP in Ubuntu.

I install apt-get php5-sqlite3 and edited php.ini to include sqlite3 extension.

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Answer 1

The SQLite3 PDO driver is named SQLite, not SQLite3, so you can do:

new SQLite("database");

For a SQLite2 database:

new SQLite2("database");

Answer 2

This will drown here, but I fixed my problems with this:

As far as I have found out, there is a faulty file in /usr/local/lib called libsqlite3.so.0 which points to libsqlite3.so.0.8.6. It's been installed through the php7.3-* packages as far as I can tell.

I renamed the file in case it was needed for something. With the command:

cd /usr/local/lib sudo mv libsqlite3.so.0 ./libsqlite3.so.0.back

But you can also just delete it: rm libsqlite3.so.0

The thread that lead me to the answer: link

This solved my problems, and I hope they solve yours as well :)

Answer 3

Edit: This answer is outdated, but can't be removed because it's accepted. Please see the solution from Stacey Richards for the correct answer.

 sudo apt-get install php5-cli php5-dev make
 sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev
 sudo apt-get install php5-sqlite3
 sudo apt-get remove php5-sqlite3
 cd ~
 wget http://pecl.php.net/get/sqlite3-0.6.tgz
 tar -zxf sqlite3-0.6.tgz
 cd sqlite3-0.6/
 sudo phpize
 sudo ./configure
 sudo make
 sudo make install
 sudo apache2ctl restart

Ripped from the ubuntu form.