How do I confirm sqlite3 is properly loaded and running? - php

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I had a friend configure my server for sqlite3 yesterday.
He went in through putty and used a command line to determine if it was already installed:
locate sqlite3
it came back that it was indeed located as this shows:
/usr/bin/sqlite3
/usr/lib64/libsqlite3.so.0
/usr/lib64/libsqlite3.so.0.8.6
/usr/lib64/apr-util-1/apr_dbd_sqlite3-1.so
/usr/lib64/apr-util-1/apr_dbd_sqlite3.so
/usr/share/man/man1/sqlite3.1.gz
/usr/share/rails/configs/databases/sqlite3.yml
So then he proceeded to explain how we had to configure the apache to recognize and load that module. So we went into the httpd/conf.d/ directory and vi edited the php_conf file by adding this line <<---THIS LINE & now the complete file looks like this:
# PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language which attempts to make it
# easy for developers to write dynamically generated webpages.
#
<IfModule prefork.c>
LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
</IfModule>
<IfModule worker.c>
LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5-zts.so
</IfModule>
LoadModule php5_module modules/pdo_sqlite.so<<---THIS LINE
#
# Cause the PHP interpreter to handle files with a .php extension.
#
AddHandler php5-script .php
AddType text/html .php
#
# Add index.php to the list of files that will be served as directory
# indexes.
We then saved that file (i just double checked). We then called /etc/init.d/httpd reload and then restart. We got Green OKs all around.
But I still get:
PHP Fatal error: Class 'SQLite3' not found
when calling this line in my php file:
$db = new SQLite3($sqlite_database);
Any ideas how else I could test to see what is wrong?