symfony - How to use sqlite database on symfony2 project?

Question

In a Symfony2 project, you can configure the databases connections at the app/config/parameters.ini file. Documentation states that you can use, among others, sqlite3 PDO driver.

But configuring sqlite doesn't works well:

[parameters]
    database_driver   = pdo_sqlite
    database_host     = localhost
    database_port     =
    database_name     = test_project.db
    database_user     = root
    database_password = 

Using app/console doctrine:database:create, successfully creates a test_project.db file at the project root directory.

But after creating some entities, then running app/console doctrine:schema:update --force should create the tables on the database file, but it doesn't, file appears empty, with O bytes size.

Note that using any other PDO driver works well, but not with SQLite...

I've also tried to use the full path for the db file in the database_name parameter, but to no avail, database still doesn't gets updated.

For reference, here's the doctrine dbal section of the config.yml file:

doctrine:
    dbal:
        driver:   %database_driver%
        host:     %database_host%
        port:     %database_port%
        dbname:   %database_name%
        user:     %database_user%
        password: %database_password%
        charset:  UTF8

Is there a way around this? configurations missing? something not stated on the official doc of symfony2 project?

Answer 1

According to Doctrine the elements used for sqlite DBAL configuration are:

• user (string): Username to use when connecting to the database.
• password (string): Password to use when connecting to the database.
• path (string): The filesystem path to the database file. Mutually exclusive with memory. path takes precedence.
• memory (boolean): True if the SQLite database should be in-memory (non-persistent). Mutually exclusive with path. path takes precedence.

This is also listed in the full reference for Doctrine configuration in Symfony2, although not elaborated on.

So you need to switch up your config params to match whats appropriate for sqlite.