title: How to update the SQLite version bundled with PHP
body: <p>PHP 5.5 comes bundled with SQLite 3.7.7.1. </p>
  
  <p>There have been ~ 20 newer releases of SQLite since then, and www.sqlite.org recommends to upgrade. In my case, I need a feature available only since SQLite 3.8.0.</p>
  
  <p>As far as I understood, SQLite is not dynamically linked in PHP 5.5 but the sqlite source code is compiled into the built-in PHP PDO driver for SQLite. </p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to use a current SQLite version in PHP without rebuilding PHP from source (e.g., somehow dynamically linking sqlite.dll)? </p>