Loading SQLite extensions on PDO

Hey, internals! As many before me, I have come accross a need to load a SQLite extension. While it is supported on the SQLite3 interface, popular frameworks (namely Laravel) use solely PDO and loading extensions is not available on PDO. I've looked into the history of this issue and it seems that - Enabling SQLite extensions via SQL queries is disabled by default and community agrees with this. - The suggested way to enable extensions is via the SQLite C API and that's how SQLite3::loadExtension() does it. - The community does not want a new driver-specific `loadExtension` method on the PDO class (there are some historical driver-specific methods). Respecting these constraints, I would like to ask if the `options` parameter of PDO might be appropriate for this need? According to docs this parameter is intended for driver-specific options: https://www.php.net/manual/en/pdo.construct.php Could it accept an extensions key with an array of extensions that the SQLite PDO driver should load? This would not require changing the PDO interface (apart from adding something like a PDO::SQLITE_LOAD_EXTENSIONS constant for the key) and it would allow using the SQLite API for loading the extension internally. For me as a user of Laravel this would seem the easiest approach as passing the options parameter to the PDO instance is already well supported while replacing PDO with another class or calling methods on every new-booted PDO instance is not that straightforward. I suspect the situation is similar on other frameworks. What do you think? References: - Bug report https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64810 - Solution attempt creating PDO::sqliteCreateExtension() https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/3368 - Solution attempt extending PDO into PDOSQLite class https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/5765 - Discussion that new driver-specific methods are not welcome in PDO https://externals.io/message/100268 - Similar discussion where the PDOSQLite class was proposed https://externals.io/message/110578 - Discussion about eventually replacing SQLite3 with PDO/SQLite https://externals.io/message/108256 (pointing this out as my proposal would somewhat interfere - SQLite3 allows loading extensions at any time while the PDO options are only used while initializing it) - A workaround https://github.com/Moxio/sqlite-extended-api Thanks for your time, Juris