# SQLite Functions (PDO_SQLITE)

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PDO_SQLITE is a driver that implements the PHP Data Objects (PDO) interface to enable access to SQLite 3 databases.

PDO_SQLITE allows using strings apart from streams together with `PDO::PARAM_LOB`.

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PDO_SQLITE DSN

Connecting to SQLite databases

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The PDO_SQLITE Data Source Name (DSN) is composed of the following elements:

DSN prefix (SQLite 3)

- The DSN prefix is `sqlite:`.

  - To access a database on disk, the absolute path has to be appended to the DSN prefix.

  - To create a database in memory, `:memory:` has to be appended to the DSN prefix.

  - If the DSN consists of the DSN prefix only, a temporary database is used, which is deleted when the connection is closed.

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#### PDO_SQLITE DSN examples

The following examples show PDO_SQLITE DSN for connecting to SQLite databases:

    sqlite:/opt/databases/mydb.sq3
    sqlite::memory:
    sqlite:

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