An unofficial SQLite Driver for YOURLS 1.8.2

This is a fork of a fork of the original, but now outdated SQLite driver for YOURLS. To my knowledge, it's the only actively maintained version, now with a readily available Docker image (thanks @Niduroki).

Running in a container with Podman or Docker

If you'd like to run Yourls with this Sqlite driver in a production-ready container, you can use Podman or Docker.

You can get an image from Niduroki/docker-yourls-sqlite.

A note on encoding

YOURLS switched to the UTF8mb4 encoding for the official MySQL database driver for v1.7.10. Since SQLite uses UTF8, and has no support for the new character encoding format, using this unofficial driver will not allow you to create short URLs with extended characters stored as 4 Bytes, such as emojis.

From the original README

What

This is a custom DB layer that allows to use YOURLS with PDO + SQLite. This requires YOURLS 1.8, not before, not after. See YOURLS releases.

This is experimental, mostly to show how it should be done, ie without hacking core file - see YOURLS issue #1337 (1337, for real!).

If you notice something that doesn't work as expected, please open an issue with details on how to reproduce and wait for someone to submit a pull request to fix. If you can both submit the issue and the pull request, you're the boss!

How

• Drop these files in /user/, next to your config.php (this is not a plugin)
• Load YOURLS: the first time, it will create a fresh SQlite DB in that same user directory
• Have fun

FAQ

Doesn't work!

See above

Will this break my existing install that uses MySQL?

Nope! All the data stored in MySQL is untouched (you can test this driver with no SQL server running to be sure) and when you're done, simply delete (or rename) the db.php file and you'll get all your original data back from MySQL

License

Do whatever the hell you want with it