On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:26:01 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Adam McGreggor writes:
However, with those caveats, one should be able to use the same *database*, and Joomla/Kunena/Drupal/phpBB2 could all co-exist, in the same database, just using different database table prefixes, e.g.,
I rather doubt that's what John wants. I am guessing he wants *one* user database,
You guess correctly. This is because my web hoster limits the number of MySQL databases that one can have. From looking elsewhere that doesn't appear uncommon with Australian hosters.
*one* message database/archive, etc, etc, which presents various different faces to users depending one whether they access via mail, news, or forum.
Exactly correct.
That's why Barry is focusing on various kind of adaptors, so that different functions can share certain databases.
Which will be a huge help IMO. :-)
Regards, John.