[eluser]mpc[/eluser]
Thanks so much for the kindness of a reply, Owan
Per PHPinfo(), the GoDaddy Linux "Economy Hosting Plan" is running PHP 5.1.4 and SQLite 2.8.17.
While I'm well familiar with the PHP Apache module drill, where one needs to re-start Apache for PHP.ini changes to take effect, I've not seen much written on how php-cgi differs. GoDaddy said 'ok' to a document root PHP.ini and that on php-cgi each PHP script refers to PHP.ini. Hmmm ... ? How far can I take that, I wondered? Not far, it turns out ... I tried:
extension=pdo.so
extension=sqlite.so
extension=php_pdo.so
extension=php_pdo_sqlite.so
extension=php_pdo_sqlite.so
extension=sqlite3.so
... all to no avail. I did discover that PDO must be loaded before SQLite.
GoDaddy tech support replied to my question with:
"on a shared server hosting account, this would not be possible. You would need a Virtual Dedicated or Dedicated server in order to make this level of modification."
... so much for the php-cgi usefulness of the document root PHP.ini %-P
