PDO_SQLITE DSN

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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.

Examples

Example 1. PDO_SQLITE DSN examples
The following examples show PDO_SQLITE DSN for connecting to SQLite databases:
sqlite:/opt/databases/mydb.sq3 sqlite:memory: sqlite2:/opt/databases/mydb.sq2 sqlite2:memory:

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