Question

The following code should display a message but shows me nothing (neither on the screen, nor in the source code). Any idea why this may be?

<?php
   try
   {   
      //create or open the database
      $database = new SQLiteDatabase('myDatabase.sqlite', 0666, $error);
      echo 'that works';
   }   
   catch(Exception $e) 
   {   
      die('that doesnt: '.$error);
   }

I’m using:

• Ubuntu 11.10
• PHP 5.3.6-13ubuntu3.6 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Feb 11 2012
  02:17:16)

phpinfo() shows me the following:

• …
• Additional .ini files parsed: …
  /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/pdo_sqlite.ini,
  /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/sqlite.ini, …
• PDO drivers mysql, sqlite
• SQLite Library 3.7.7
• …

SQLite was installed that way:

sudo apt-get install php5-sqlite

Answer 1

SQLiteDatabase is not a valid class name, at least not in this extension.

You’re looking for Sqlite3:

$db = new Sqlite3('myDatabase.sqlite');

Since the class is undefined, it’s provoking a fatal error, and you probably don’t see anything because of either your error_reporting level or display_errors setting.