[Phpwebsite-developers] Site with multi-instance database is up

[Geoff S. <Ge...@Ho...>]

Check out http://www.txsd16democrats.org to see a phpWebsite that uses the
table prefix technique to create a separate set of tables for an instance of
phpwebsite. Note, there isn't much of any content or customization at the
moment. The tables are named sd16_authors, etc.

Here are a few concerns I have from digging into the code to get this
working.

1. The current code is extremely inconsistent. (Although the new code is
much better, it still suffers to some extent from items 2 and 3, below,
because that's what was required to fit it into the existing system.)
2. The code doesn't seem to be segmented into files in a logical fashion.
3. Includes and globals seem to be used extensively instead of using
parameters on function calls.
4. I'm not particularly happy about the way that HTML is embedded in the
code. More on that another time.

I'm especially concerned about item 3. The only way to avoid this kind of
problem is to do a "real" design of the system. Perhaps, we can address
these issues in our IRC meeting.

Geoff

Geoff Staples,
Dallas, Texas   75219-4432
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