dolthub/doltlite-php

DoltLite for PHP: SQLite with Git-style version control (branch, commit, merge, diff), bound over FFI with the SQLite3-class API shape.

0.50.1 2026-09-01 00:33 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.1
• ext-ffi: *

Apache-2.0

• database
• sqlite
• version-control
• ffi
• doltlite
• dolt

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-09-01 00:33 UTC

README

The installable package is distributed through dolthub/doltlite-php, whose contents — including the prebuilt lib/ binaries — are pushed by dolthub/doltlite's release workflow on every tagged release. The package source lives in that repository under packaging/composer/; send issues and pull requests there.

DoltLite for PHP: SQLite with Git-style version control — branch, commit, merge, and diff your relational data. The binding runs over PHP's FFI extension against the libdoltlite shared library bundled with this package, and mirrors the shape of PHP's built-in SQLite3 classes so existing code ports by search-and-replace.

Requirements

• PHP >= 8.1 with the ffi extension enabled (php -m | grep FFI). On hardened hosts check ffi.enable; the CLI default allows FFI.
• Linux (x86_64/arm64) or macOS (x86_64/arm64). The package bundles a prebuilt libdoltlite per platform; DOLTLITE_PHP_LIB=/path/to/lib overrides resolution for anything else.

Install

composer require dolthub/doltlite-php

Use

The API is SQLite3 with the prefix swapped: Doltlite3, Doltlite3Stmt, Doltlite3Result, and DOLTLITE3_* constants. Errors always raise Doltlite\Exception.

use Doltlite\Doltlite3;

$db = new Doltlite3('app.db');
$db->exec('CREATE TABLE users(id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT)');

$stmt = $db->prepare('INSERT INTO users(name) VALUES (:name)');
$stmt->bindValue(':name', 'Ada');
$stmt->execute();

// Version control is plain SQL on the same connection.
$db->querySingle("SELECT dolt_commit('-A', '-m', 'add ada')");
$db->querySingle("SELECT dolt_checkout('-b', 'experiment')");
$db->exec("UPDATE users SET name = 'Grace' WHERE id = 1");
$db->querySingle("SELECT dolt_commit('-A', '-m', 'rename')");
$db->querySingle("SELECT dolt_checkout('main')");
$db->querySingle("SELECT dolt_merge('experiment')");

$log = $db->query('SELECT commit_hash, message FROM dolt_log');
while (($commit = $log->fetchArray(DOLTLITE3_ASSOC)) !== false) {
    echo "{$commit['commit_hash']} {$commit['message']}\n";
}

Every DoltLite feature — branches, merges, diffs (dolt_diff, dolt_log, dolt_branches tables), remotes (dolt_push/dolt_pull/dolt_clone) — is reachable through SQL; no binding-specific API is needed. See the DoltLite documentation for the SQL surface.

Differences from SQLite3

• Errors always throw Doltlite\Exception; there is no warnings mode (matching where PHP itself is headed with SQLite3).
• openBlob, createFunction, createAggregate, createCollation, and setAuthorizer are not implemented. File an issue if you need them.