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$options = array(
    'driver' => $database_type,
    'host' => $host,
    'user' => $user,
    'password' => $password,
    'database' => $db,
    'prefix' => $dbprefix);

try {
    $this->db = JDatabaseFactory::getDriver($database_type, $options);

    } catch (\RuntimeException $e) {
	header('HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error');
   	exit(0);
    }

    $this->db->debug($site->debug);

    return $this->db;
}