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Up to this point, we’ve created a basic Joomla 2.5 plugin and added a custom 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 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. |
