{"id":1308,"date":"2012-05-10T18:02:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T18:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2012\/05\/10\/which-databases-are-available\/"},"modified":"2020-09-22T16:16:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T20:16:48","slug":"which-databases-are-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-2-5\/which-databases-are-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Which databases can be used with Joomla 2.5?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"alert\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.joomla.org\/Joomla!_CMS_versions\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>When manually installing Joomla 2.5, at <strong>step 4: Database<\/strong> you&#8217;ll be asked to choose a <strong>database type<\/strong> of either MySQLi or MySQL. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you choose MySQLi or MySQL, you will still be using a MySQL database. MySQL is in fact required in order to use Joomla, and there is currently not an option to use any other database type.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question<\/strong>: Which databases can be used with Joomla 2.5?<br \/><strong>Answer<\/strong>: MySQL<\/p>\n<h2>MySQLi vs. MySQL for Joomla 2.5<\/h2>\n<p>MySQLi and MySQL are both php extensions that allow Joomla 2.5 to interact with the database. MySQLi stands for MySQL Improved. Not only is it recommended by Joomla, but php&#8217;s own website even suggests using MySQLi if you are using MySQL versions 4.1.3 or higher (which most servers are). If you&#8217;d like to learn more above the differences between MySQLi and MySQL, please see <a href=\"https:\/\/php.net\/manual\/en\/mysqli.overview.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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