IMHO, The only consideration would be the ease of backup and portability if you use the same DB. In our case, our DB, holding many Place_locations and a large (50mb) GEDCOM has created some very large tables which can create backup/restore issues if file sizes are restricted on your server. I don't know how large the Joomla tables are or how much data is stored for Joomla operations.
-Stephen
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I have a question.
I have a site in Joomla with a SQL database. Is it posible to use that database (and how) or must i have another database?
Thanks
They can share.
When you configure PhpGedView, you can specify a "table prefix". The default is pgv_
This means that PGV creates tables called pgv_individual, pgv_user, pgv_family, etc.
This prevents conflicts with other applications
IMHO, The only consideration would be the ease of backup and portability if you use the same DB. In our case, our DB, holding many Place_locations and a large (50mb) GEDCOM has created some very large tables which can create backup/restore issues if file sizes are restricted on your server. I don't know how large the Joomla tables are or how much data is stored for Joomla operations.
-Stephen
Ok
thanks for the quick response.
Now i can continue installing and using PGV :-)