Title: [Plugin: FG Joomla to WordPress] Unknown system variable 'NAMES'
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: FG Joomla to WordPress] Unknown system variable 'NAMES'

 *  Resolved [svennienbg2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svennienbg2/)
 * (@svennienbg2)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fg-joomla-to-wordpress-unknown-system-variable-names/)
 * Hi there
 * I would like to migrate a joomla 1.5.8 site to wordpress and get this error
    
   Erreur !: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1193] Unknown system variable ‘NAMES’
 * Can anyone help me? Thx.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Kerfred](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kerfred/)
 * (@kerfred)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fg-joomla-to-wordpress-unknown-system-variable-names/#post-3047184)
 * You are probably using a MySQL 4 database.
    You must move your Joomla database
   to MySQL 5 before running the migration to WordPress.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fg-joomla-to-wordpress-unknown-system-variable-names/#post-3047184)
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