sqlite correct path/URI for php pdo on windows
The solution
Notice the simple slash in the DSN sqlite:/ ? Just drop it !
write your DSN like this :
sqlite:name.db.
This works with relative and absolute paths so :
$dsn = 'sqlite:c:\full\path\to\name.db'; // --WORKS--
$dsn = 'sqlite:..\data\name.db'; // --WORKS--
$dsn = 'sqlite:name.db'; // --WORKS--
Hope it will save you some time in the future !
Better than PDO('sqlite:...') is to use PHP sqlite3 extension and its SQLite3 class. I have tried your advices above with a database on an external (hard)drive and it didn't work (still giving the same error as mentioned in the first post by @justin-t). Then I tried with SQLite3 class and... Hurray! It worked!
(Just for those who are wondering about PDO and a lot of its weird bugs.)