Simon, why would you recommend not using PDO? Does the SQLite3 extension
perform better, or does it boil down to personal preference?
On August 5, 2017 1:35:43 PM EDT, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote:
>
>
>On 5 Aug 2017, at 10:53am, Edmondo Borasio <edmondobora...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Hey, do you know where I can find good instructions on how to use
>SQLITE in
>> PHP?
>
>I used to do that for a living.
>
>First, use the sqlite3 module. Don’t use the PDO module which can
>access many types of database. So you should be doing "new SQLite3()"
>like this:
>
> $db = new SQLite3('mysqlitedb.db');
> $results = $db->query('SELECT bar FROM foo');
> while ($row = $results->fetchArray()) {
> var_dump($row);
> }
>
>Second, I have not found any better examples than you find in the
>documentation
>
><http://php.net/manual/en/book.sqlite3.php>
>
>which is rather annoying since there aren’t many examples of some
>calls.
>
>Third, I recommend you try to do object-oriented programming in PHP
>where possible, and the sqlite3 module works well with that. So
>although the call provided is
>
> $row = $results->fetchArray()
>
>I frequently do
>
> $row = (object) $results->fetchArray()
>
>and the var_dump line in the above example will show you how this
>changes what you get.
>
>Simon.
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