Accessing the database using JDatabase
From Joomla! Documentation
Useful information
If you are looking for practical information about accessing the database it has been moved to the Joomla! 1.5 page linked below
Supported Storage Connectors
The table below outlines the database and storage connectors available for Joomla! as well as which version of Joomla they became available in.
To make a connector available in Joomla's installer or global configuration manager, you will need to ensure the PHP library is installed (E.g. for PHP5 and MySQL the php5-mysql library would need to be installed).
| Database | Joomla Versions |
|---|---|
| MySQL | |
| Postgresql | |
| Microsoft SQL Server | |
| Microsoft SQL Azure | |
| Oracle DB | |
| SQL Lite | |
| PHP Data Objects (PDO)* |
- PHP Data Objects is a database abstraction layer and is shipped with PHP 5.1+.