MyBB Community Forums

Hello all,
I has a free Post to Host Forum with quite a no. of members.
My community was going very nice almost 2 hours go.
Now i checked it and its says

Quote:MyBB Internal Error

MyBB has experienced an internal error and cannot continue.

Error Type:
MyBB Error (40)
Error Message:
MyBB was unable to load the SQL extension. Please contact the MyBB Group for support. MyBB Website

Please contact the MyBB Group for support.

I have checked by DB its there no problem in the config file with DB name.

SQL Sever up and normal......
Now what to do?

Forum URL is
www.xlxhost.net

Post the database section of your ./inc/config.php, but remove the password.

$config['database']['type'] = 'mysqli';
$config['database']['database'] = 'xlxfree_forums';
$config['database']['table_prefix'] = 'mybb_';

$config['database']['hostname'] = 'localhost';
$config['database']['username'] = 'xlxfree_Fakher';
$config['database']['password'] = '********';

here it is.

Maybe try removing the 'i' from 'mysqli'.

As it says it can't load the SQL extension, that's the first thing I'd try... if it doesn't work, put the 'i' back in again.

oh wow
thanx a lot Matt your are Genius
it was quickly done

but a question Matt, it was working well for almost 3 weeks or so but now what happened to it?

To be honest I have no idea My only guess is that your host changed the MySQL version but didn't think to tell you.

Anyway, glad it's fixed, I'll keep that solution in mind for the future.

thats mean the MySqli php extension have been disabled.

Well, what I think is that the MySQLi thing worked in the beginning because of some type of bug in MyBB that makes it work in the beginning. When I started my forums, they messed up about three weeks later. They had, like you, a MySQL error. I had the wrong database name in there. Later, I found out of a cookie error. See, it works for some reason in the beginning.

It wouldn't work for a time and then just choose not to work How could MyBB just choose to allow it, and then not??