A thorough, practical guide to using, administering, and programming the popular database that is bundled with PHP 5. SQLite is the next big thing in the PHP Web development world - the popular, easy to use database is supported by, and bundled with, the much-anticipated PHP 5. With over 15 million PHP Web sites, the release of PHP 5 will create a tremendous influx of new SQLite users. The book provides a thorough, hands-on guide to using, administering, and programming SQLite. SQLite is a small, fast, embeddable database that is being bundled with PHP 5. This means that SQLite will be used -- or at least tried out -- by the millions of developers that use PHP. There is some online documentation of SQLite, but it isn't organized in a useful fashion, it has large gaps, and it leans heavily on coding comments. "It's small, fast and very low footprint,...I'm exceedingly pleased with SQLite. Since converting... to use it, performance and space efficiency have vastly improved over previous versions, and the ease-of-use (and ease-of-setup) perspective makes it tremendously more appropriate for embedded use in a tool of this sort than depending on a full-fledged out-of-process database server. In short: Try it. You'll like it." -- Review on Freshmeat. Chris Newman is a consultant programmer specializing in database development with an Internet twist. He has extensive commercial experience of using PHP to integrate various database systems and has produced a wide range of applications for an international client base. He runs Lightwood Consultancy Ltd, the company he founded in 1999 to further his interest in online database development. Newman has served as a technical editor on several books from Sams, including PHP and MySQL Web Development, Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache All in One, and Red Hat Linux Unleashed.