Install sqlite for php5.6 - php

Question

The php manpage sais, you have to install sqlite via PECL, so I tried the latest version:
cd /tmp/
wget https://pecl.php.net/get/SQLite-1.0.3.tgz
tar xvzf SQLite-1.0.3.tgz
cd SQLite-1.0.3/
phpize
But I cannot install php_sqlite on Ubuntu 15.10 like this. I get an error at make :
/tmp/SQLite-1.0.3/sqlite.c: In function 'zif_sqlite_open':
/usr/include/php5/main/php_globals.h:32:29: error: 'struct _php_core_globals' has no member named 'safe_mode'
And many more, so is there an actual version working on PHP 5.6?
I want to run an old program that uses the function sqlite_open
And installing the package didn't make it work:
apt-get install php5-sqlite
So maybe there's a good wrapper library around that uses SQLite3::open to simulate the old functions?

Answer 1

I've been wracking my brain for a couple of days on this, but this finally worked for me:
sudo apt-get install php5.6-sqlite3
I have php5.6 as an executable so I then confirmed that php5.6 -m showed sqlite3 to be loaded and it was.
After that, I was able to execute the following simple script. Previously it was telling me that the class SQLite3 was not found.
<?php
class MyDB extends SQLite3
{
function __construct()
{
$this->open('test.db');
}
}
$db = new MyDB();
if(!$db){
echo $db->lastErrorMsg();
} else {
echo "Opened database successfully\n";
}

Answer 2

As far as I can see the pecl page shows that package was last updated in 2004. The link you linked also states: "(PHP 5 < 5.4.0, PECL sqlite >= 1.0.0)". Simply said It's not for 5.6.
Regardless you should just install the default package instead of using pecl when this is an option. For ubuntu this is php5-sqlite.
The extension you linked is very old. I would recommend taking a look at SQLite3 which should be included by default.