how do i enable pdo extenstion in my hosting provider

Question

1) My whole application is built on PDO with sqlite

My Problem: The hosting provider has PDO --disabled

• I want to know how i can get PDO extensions to work on my hosting provider. The hosting provider just doesnt seem to respond to my queries. So is there any way i can do this remotely.

Answer 1

If this is shared hosting, then your web host must allow such functionality. Contact them and explain your needs. If they can't find a way to meet them or your queries continue to go unanswered, switch hosts. There's a gazillion of them.

Answer 2

It depends on what functionality your hosting provider supports and how willing you are to switch.

Ideally, you'll want to switch since any webhost that doesn't offer PDO is also probably making nasty mistakes elsewhere too. (PDO is the recommended way to use parameterized SQL with PHP to prevent SQL injection attacks)

If you don't want to switch, the simplest solution is probably to follow PEAR's guide to setting up a local PEAR install and then to run pear install pdo.

A more technically correct but more involved solution, if your host allows custom HTTP daemon (Apache) setups is to build your own mod_php in your homedir with PDO enabled and use that. (Using the PDO included with PHP is, as far as I know, the recommended solution for versions that bundle it)

Another option you could try if you can't set up a custom Apache instance is to build a custom PHP but then use .htaccess to run it via FastCGI.

I can't think of any options other than that.