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SteeveDroz
Asked: 2012-05-04 03:16:08 +0800 CST

SQLite stopped working after upgrade

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As many of you did, I upgraded from Lucid to Precise this week and almost everything seems to work find.

everything except… SQLite, which was working well before but not anymore.

I checked everything: phpinfo(), php.ini, sqlite3.ini.

The sqlite command works fine, but when I try to use PHP... *PLOP*, nothing works.

I get the message

Fatal error: Class 'SQLiteDatabase' not found in /var/www/test/sqlite/index.php on line 4

Line 4 being

$db = new SQLiteDatabase('test.sqlite', 0666);

Any hint?

edit

You can see my phpinfo() here: http://pastebin.com/jQ7Bz0GN

The apache log is

 * Restarting web server apache2
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
... waiting apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
php sqlite 12.04

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Extensions

    According to Vendor Specific Database Extensions page on the PHP site, there are two SQLite extensions:

    SQLite3 extension is a newer replacement of SQLite, which soon will become obsolete:

    The SQLite extension is enabled by default as of PHP 5.0.
    Beginning with PHP 5.4, the SQLite extension is available only via PECL.

    Ubuntu 10.04 vs 12.04

    Now, some practicalities. Let's have a look at default web server configuration that was installed using:

    sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-sqlite

    Ubuntu 10.04:

    # php --ri sqlite

SQLite

SQLite support => enabled
PECL Module version => 2.0-dev
SQLite Library => 2.8.17
SQLite Encoding => UTF-8

# php --ri sqlite3

sqlite3

SQLite3 support => enabled
SQLite3 module version => 0.7-dev
SQLite Library => 3.6.22

    Ubuntu 12.04:

    # php --ri sqlite

Extension 'sqlite' not present.

# php --ri sqlite3

sqlite3

SQLite3 support => enabled
SQLite3 module version => 0.7-dev
SQLite Library => 3.7.9

    So, Ubuntu 12.04 default PHP installation (as of writing this - version 5.3.10) already does not have sqlite extension as built in. The output above states that only sqlite3 extension is present, which came from php5-sqlite package.

    Solution

    Pick your evil:

    1. Right approach in long term would be to adapt the code to get it working under SQLite3. The changes would be minor, but this might involve some unwanted copy-paste-style work on a big amount of files. If this is the case, and right is not a right word here, solution 2 is for you.
    2. Install obsolete extension from PECL.
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  2. Following Andrejs Cainikovs' answer and strongly advising you to upgrade the code, here some examples of what kind of work should be done, when migrating from SQLiteDatabase class (sqlite library) to SQLite3 class (SQLite3 library).

    For example:

    • SQLiteDatabase -> SQLite3,
    • SQLiteDatabase::unbufferedQuery -> SQLite3::query,
    • SQLiteResult::fetchAll(SQLITE_*) -> SQLite3Result::fetchArray(SQLITE3_*) etc.

    As for fetching, in old SQLite we had:

    $rowsIMEI = $db->unbufferedQuery($imeiSQL)->fetchAll(SQLITE_ASSOC);

foreach($rowsIMEI as $r)
{
    ...
}

    While, in new SQLite3 we should:

    $rowsIMEI = $db->query($imeiSQL);

while($r = $rowsIMEI->fetchArray(SQLITE3_ASSOC))
{
    ...
}

    Other changes requires similar amount of work, so this shouldn't be a life-time process.

    Before you begin, you have to first use a tool like SQLite Studio to convert your database file from 2.1 to 3.0. Size can be lowered by even a half, so I think it is something worth fighting for.

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  3. Solution (NOT for production, just for play):
    1. Get "php5-sqlite" deb file from ubuntu11.04 or any other
    2. Extract it and find file sqlite.so
    -- You can get sqlite.so in other way, for example from Your old system --
    3. Put sqlite.so to /usr/lib/php5/20090626+lfs/
    4. Add this to php.ini (/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini):

    extension=sqlite.so
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