It is possible to use a CSV as a database. Internally, PHsPeed will create a temporary database (SQLite) and copy the contents of the CSV into the database. On updates PHsPeed will recreate the csv file. In order to work, the first line of the CSV file needs to contain a field specification. The Separator property needs to be set to the separating character


Considerations: The IDE has - as it is a windows application - access to your full environment. So you can assign a csv from any (sub) folder in the IDE. However, as Apache is configured to only allow folders within the htaccess folder, you might not be able to access the csv from PHP. For that reason you MUST use a folder within your htaccess structure. 


Use 'csv' as the PDO driver. You do NOT need to specify it in the PDO connection strings.