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<h1 class="refname">PDO_SQLITE DSN</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PECL PDO_SQLITE >= 0.2.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">PDO_SQLITE DSN</span> — <span class="dc-title">Connecting to SQLite databases</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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The PDO_SQLITE Data Source Name (DSN) is composed of the following elements:
<dl>
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<span class="term">DSN prefix (SQLite 3)</span>
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<p class="para">
The DSN prefix is <strong class="userinput"><code>sqlite:</code></strong>.
<ul class="itemizedlist">
<li class="listitem">
<p class="para">
To access a database on disk, append the absolute path to the
DSN prefix.
</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<p class="para">
To create a database in memory, append <em>:memory:</em>
to the DSN prefix.
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</li>
</ul>
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<span class="term">DSN prefix (SQLite 2)</span>
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<p class="para">
The <a href="ref.sqlite.html" class="link">SQLite</a> extension in
PHP 5.1 provides a PDO driver that supports accessing and creating SQLite 2
databases. This enables you to access databases you may have created
with the <a href="ref.sqlite.html" class="link">SQLite</a> extension in
previous versions of PHP.
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<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
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The sqlite2 driver is only available in PHP 5.1.x if you have enabled
both PDO and ext/sqlite. It is not currently available via PECL.
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The DSN prefix for connecting to SQLite 2 databases is
<strong class="userinput"><code>sqlite2:</code></strong>.
<ul class="itemizedlist">
<li class="listitem">
<p class="para">
To access a database on disk, append the absolute path to the
DSN prefix.
</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<p class="para">
To create a database in memory, append <em>:memory:</em>
to the DSN prefix.
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</li>
</ul>
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<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<p><strong>Example #1 PDO_SQLITE DSN examples</strong></p>
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The following examples show PDO_SQLITE DSN for connecting to
SQLite databases:
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<div class="cdata"><pre>
sqlite:/opt/databases/mydb.sq3
sqlite::memory:
sqlite2:/opt/databases/mydb.sq2
sqlite2::memory:
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