I am new to webdesign and everything that surrounds it. I bought a hosting package that came without a MySQL Database. However, I found out I needed one in order to host a forum. I looked into a forum that ran on SQLite instead. I found out that PHP5 comes with a SQLite Database. My host supports PHP5 in all of their hosting packages. I asked them if they supported SQLite and they said no. How can this be? This is a description of their support for PHP5 that was on my sign-up page. "PHP PHP5 is a server-side HTML embedded scripting language. PHP is ideal for the creation of dynamic data-driven web sites. PHP5 is fully enabled on all of our packages." Do I have a case in which I can complain? What should I do? If I am wrong I can take the worsts of your criticism, but please make it constructive.
Well in order to find out if your host supports SQLite put the following into a file that parses php5 (I assume .php but some hosts have php4 + php5) <?php phpinfo(); ?> PHP: Now there should be a SQLite heading if it is in fact supported. Now not having MySQL sort of stinks honestly I'm surprised a host is even selling hosting without mysql,pgsql or something like that.
PHP still needs to be compiled with SQLite or have it enabled in the php.ini. It's not included by default. There must be some forums that run on flatfile but I would suggest going for a better host, tbh. You don't really have a case if you assumed they would have a particular extension enabled without checking.
Thank you InFlow. I saw some interesting stuff, but I am a little too new to this to understand everything. Dirty liars. It says SQLite enabled. Here is a link that you can check at. I didn't want to share my site before I launched it but here. I can't live link yet. www.newshotstudio.com/info.php It strangely says that MySQL is enabled as well, but I didn't purchase a package with that. My database list on my Control Panel doesn't list it. Why did they tell me that they don't support it? Can I test to see if it works?
Go with GoDaddy. It's $6.99 a month and you get a number of databases and plenty of transfer and storage.
They may have sold you a cheaper package. I would go with a different hosting service. Cheaper is not always a good deal. I have used GoDaddy hosting and I have also heard some bad stories about them. I would say do your research to find a more reliable host.