{"id":1486,"date":"2012-06-20T16:54:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T20:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2012\/06\/20\/where-values-stored\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T23:40:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T03:40:38","slug":"where-values-stored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-2-5\/where-values-stored\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is Joomla 2.5 plugin information stored?"},"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>Up to this point, we\u2019ve <a href=\"\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-2-5\/hello-world\/\">created a basic Joomla 2.5 plugin<\/a> and <a href=\"\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-2-5\/add-parameter\/\">added a custom parameter<\/a> 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\u2019s information is stored.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Where in the database is plugin data written?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/edu_joomla25_create-plugin-tutorial_plugin-in-database.gif\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"975\" height=\"757\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/edu_joomla25_create-plugin-tutorial_plugin-in-database.gif\" class=\"optimized-lcp-image\" alt=\"plugin-in-database\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>In what fields is the plugin parameter info saved to?<\/h2>\n<p>Most of the information is easy to identify within the fields. For example:<\/p>\n<table class=\"article_table\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>name \/ element<\/th>\n<td>This is the name of the plugin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>folder<\/th>\n<td>As this is a content plugin, it is in the content folder.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>enabled<\/th>\n<td>This controls whether or not the plugin is enabled.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>manifest_cache<\/th>\n<td>This holds much of the information that was found in the plugin\u2019s xml file, such as who wrote the plugin and the author\u2019s contact information.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>params<\/th>\n<td>Any custom parameters that you create will be stored in the params field.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\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. Up to this point, we\u2019ve created a basic Joomla 2.5 plugin and added a custom parameter to it. 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