Install PHP5 with SQLite3 on Debian Lenny

Question

There is no apt-get install php5-sqlite3, as its refereed by php5-sqlite

thus, i did:

apt-get install sqlite3 and then apt-get install php5-sqlite

Restarted apache2.

When I run echo sqlite_libversion(); it returns 2.8.17.

I tried print_r(SQLite3::version()); and it gives an error: Class 'SQLite3' not found

Answer 1

Sqlite3 comes as part of PHP 5.3.x. The packaged Debian version of of PHP5 in Debian Lenny is based on 5.2.6.

From a quick google search I don't see a way to backport this. To access sqlite3 functionality on 5.2.6 you can use PDO. If that is not acceptable, then you probably will need to find/use/build a backport of PHP.