Using SQLite3 with CakePHP 2.0 - cakephp

Question

I'm trying to run SQLite3 with CakePHP 2.0
In these questions I saw that it's possible to do that in CakePHP 1.3:
- Using Sqlite3 with CakePHP
- How do I connect CakePHP to a SQLite database?
However, the solutions are not valid for CakePHP 2.0.
I configured the file 'database.php' and I got success on the starting page of CakePHP. It was able to connect to the database (but I do not know where to find the .db3 database file).
I used the following code:
public $default = array(
'datasource' => 'Database/Sqlite',
'persistent' => false,
'host' => 'localhost',
'login' => '',
'password' => '',
'database' => 'cake_blog_tutorial',
'prefix' => '',
//'encoding' => 'utf8',
);
I'm trying to find out:
Where should my cake_blog_tutorial.db3 file be kept
Is the datasource different for SQLite3, for example 'Database/Sqlite3'?
Thank you for your help!

Answer 1

In short, the answer is that Sqlite3 databases in CakePHP 2.0 take something like the following configuration:
public $default = array(
'datasource' => 'Database/Sqlite',
'persistent' => false,
'database' => 'database_name',
'prefix' => '',
//'encoding' => 'utf8',
);
The sqlite file is then automatically created in the webroot directory (unless you prepend a relative path to the database name).
Incidentally, you can use in-memory Sqlite databases (for testing purposes, for example) by changing the database name to ":memory:", e.g.:
public $default = array(
'datasource' => 'Database/Sqlite',
'persistent' => false,
'database' => ':memory:',
'prefix' => '',
//'encoding' => 'utf8',
);