Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] PHPlib & Multiple Instances

[Todd O. <to...@da...>]

Geoff, your logic looks good to me.  I assume $dbp means "database
prefix". My only question is how will $dbp be assigned?  Will there be
separate config files hard coded for each site?

BTW, I don't have anything left to commit; you might check on Matt's
calendar rewrite though.

As I was writing up my long range goals, I ran across the opposite problem
that Geoff had.  What if your site(s) get too large for one database server
to handle?  Let's assume you're using the one table approach and you have
100,000 users and 1,000 sites on a single install.  I can forsee the
threaded discussion groups and mailing list archives for these organizations
growing VERY quickly.  I think we need to code with this in mind.

I'm thinking about a server for core features and most plug-ins, but a
separate database server for forums and list archives and possible a third
for images (although not in a database).  This can be solved by connecting
to separate database servers once and passing the database handler to the
appropriate objects in a similar way Geoff proposed abstracting the table
name.  Thoughts anyone, anyone?

--Todd