Php – Reconfiguring or recompiling a PHP installation originally installed via yum

All over the Internet you can find questions and answers regarding sqlite support in PHP on Fedora Core, Red Hat, and CentOS distributions. While many of them have differences in how to go about enabling support, all of them say the same thing about the cause: packages for PHP on those distributions are compiled without support for SQLite. To my knowledge there are no current RPM's for easily installing php-sqlite3.

I recommend you take a look at the comments found on PHP's SQLite Installation page that detail how to get it working as painlessly as possible. The short version is to ensure that you have php-devel installed (if not then run yum install php-devel) and do the following:

Download the source for PHP from http://php.net/downloads.php and compile it with support for the SQLite module.

tar xfvj php-5.3.2.tar.bz2 
cd php-5.3.2/ext/sqlite/
phpize
./configure
make
make install
/etc/init.d/httpd restart

Your best option is to install the PECL package as you were doing, the problem you have there is that you're missing the php headers, they're necessary for any compilation involving php code.

Try downloading the headers (available in the source code package) and copying them were PECL is complaining until you get your PECL module compiled.

Best of lucks! This is an exciting task :)