How can I connect to SQLite using PHP?

This article will guide you on how to connect to the SQLite database using PHP.

Steps to connect to SQLite using PDO (PHP Data Objects) :

With PDO (PHP Data Objects), you may write code that can manage several database types while regaining access to databases. PDO is supported by the database type SQLite.

Follow these instructions to establish a PDO connection to SQLite:

1. Using the following PHP code, connect to the SQLite database. Replace username with Hostvento Hosting account username, path with the path of the database file, and filename with the name of the database file:

<?php

   $myPDO = new PDO('sqlite:/home/username/path/filename');

?>

Suppose, if you have a SQLite database named books.db in your home directory, and the username is example, then you can use the following statement :

<?php

   $myPDO = new PDO('sqlite:/home/example/books.db');

?>

2. Once the code connects to the SQLite database, you can run SQL queries and perform other operations. As an example, the following PHP code runs a SQL query that extracts the last names from the employees table, and stores the result in the $resultvariable :

<?php

   $result = $myPDO->query("SELECT lastname FROM employees");

?>

This is one method to access the result set’s values and print them :

<?php

   foreach($result as $row)

   {

       print $row['lastname'] . "\n";

   }

?>

For more information on PDO visit :
http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.pdo.php.

This is the easiest way to connect to SQLite using PHP.