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title: "Where is Joomla 2.5 plugin information stored?"
description: "Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. Up to this point,..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/where-values-stored/
date: 2012-06-20
modified: 2021-08-16
author: "Brad Markle"
categories: ["Joomla", "Joomla 2.5"]
tags: ["Joomla v2.5"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# Where is Joomla 2.5 plugin information stored?

Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life [here](https://docs.joomla.org/Joomla!_CMS_versions).

Up to this point, we’ve [created a basic Joomla 2.5 plugin](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/hello-world/) and [added a custom parameter](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/add-parameter/) to it. In our effort to provide a thorough tutorial series, before we get back to expanding the plugin, we would like to show you how this plugin’s information is stored.

Plugin data / parameters are stored in your Joomla 2.5 database. Using a MySQL client such as phpMyAdmin, you can easily find where and how plugin data is stored.

 

## Where in the database is plugin data written?

[![plugin-in-database](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/edu_joomla25_create-plugin-tutorial_plugin-in-database.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/edu_joomla25_create-plugin-tutorial_plugin-in-database.gif)

Plugin data is stored in the _extensions table. If your Joomla 2.5 database prefix is jjdu43 for example, the plugin data will be in the jjdu43_extensions table. To the right is a screenshot of our Hello World plugin in the database:

 

## In what fields is the plugin parameter info saved to?

Most of the information is easy to identify within the fields. For example:

| name / element | This is the name of the plugin |
| --- | --- |
| folder | As this is a content plugin, it is in the content folder. |
| enabled | This controls whether or not the plugin is enabled. |
| manifest_cache | This holds much of the information that was found in the plugin’s xml file, such as who wrote the plugin and the author’s contact information. |
| params | Any custom parameters that you create will be stored in the params field. |