You have to create a MySQL database. You can do this via your web-hosting control panel or phpMyAdmin. Make sure you have your mysql access details at hand including the hostname, username, password and database name as you will need to specify these during setup.
1. Before you upload the files, rename the file _config.php (located in the full folder) to config.php.
2. Upload the contents of the files folder to your web server.
3. Unless you run the unofficial DE update on a local server, in most cases you will need to CHMOD the following files and...
4. Go to your website where setup.php should start automatically. If not, you should run setup.php manually by entering your full site url followed by /setup.php. Example: http://www.yourdomain.com/setup.php.
5. Complete the setup process by following all on-screen prompts.
6. Immediately after completing the installation of PHP-Fusion you must CHMOD config.php back to 644 AND delete setup.php from your web server. Failure to do so could lead to someone else taking control of your site.
The PHPFusion Germany site is available for further questions.
$db_driver = "mysqli";
Best is to add this line after the last line after the ?> add a newline an copy the code here.
To use PDO the extension is as follows
$db_driver = "pdo";
(If no adaption is made than the PDO driver is used for communication with the Database.)