How can I install PHP PECL extension “SQLite” on Ubuntu 13.10

Question

I tried installing using the PECL command from documentation:

$ sudo pecl install SQLite [sudo] password for bogdanbiv: downloading SQLite-1.0.3.tgz ... Starting to download SQLite-1.0.3.tgz (371,189 bytes) .......done: 371,189 bytes 50 source files, building running: phpize Cannot find config.m4. Make sure that you run '/usr/bin/phpize' in the top level source directory of the module

So I tried to download the package manually:

$ sudo pecl download SQLite File /home/$USER/Downloads/SQLite-1.0.3.tgz downloaded

These were the first files listed in the archive:

$ tar -tzf SQLite-1.0.3.tgz

package.xml
SQLite-1.0.3/config.m4 ### config.m4 is in the archive, why isn't it found?
SQLite-1.0.3/sqlite.c
SQLite-1.0.3/sqlite.dsp
SQLite-.0.3/php_sqlite.h ...

So I unpacked the archive to folder /usr/share/php/SQLite-1.0.3.

/usr/share/php/SQLite-1.0.3$ sudo phpize Configuring for: PHP Api Version: 20121113 Zend Module Api No: 20121212 Zend Extension Api No: 220121212

After running phpize I would expect PHP to load the SQLite extention, but the only place it appears in the phpinfo page is in the Module Authors (credits). Tried restarting Ubuntu, but even after a restart PHP does not find SQLite.

I am using PECL version only because I saw it as the recomended way to install the PHP SQLite extension. I also tried earlier to install SQLite from Ubuntu packages, also unsuccessful, I will ask that in a separate question.

Disclaimer: I read that using SQLite with sqlite_open is supposed to be deprecated, I just need it to get past an example without which I am blocked.

Answer 1

I am using PECL version only because I saw it as the recomended way to install the PHP SQLite extension.

You should not be using the PECL version of this extension, as sqlite support is now part of PHP.

For saucy, install the php5-sqlite package.

Installing the sqlite package directly will only install the client and not any integrations or libraries.