Creating several forums on one MySQL database

Client Joined: Oct 07, 2003 Posts: 735 Location: Ohio

I have PHPNuke 6.7 at present, and will probably upgrade to 6.9 when I go live with my site still in development. Everything is working splendid. What I want to do is to create more forums on my database.

What my site will be is a gaming site for the "clan" I'm in. The website will be for example whatever-gaming.net and they will be the main forums for the gamng community. I want to load 2-4 more forums on the same database as we get more hosted clans.

I have read that this can be done by just renaming the table prefix names during install of PHPBB. Then I am guessing I need to copy and rename the forum module to clanname_forum module, and stick it in the module folder under html. I would probaly have to go into each .php in the new module and rename the path of the new forum.

There is also the PPtoNuke port thing I can run but I can't find any documentation on it, plus I already have a forum up and running on my site, I just want to add another forum.

Lastly I would like to find a way to create a custom block called forum so I can have one block with:

Main forum
Forum A
Forum B
Forum C

and link it to each of my clan forums.

I also want one login and registeration point, which I think can be done easy.

Any guidance on this will be greatly appreciated.

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Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

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I have read that this can be done by just renaming the table prefix names during install of PHPBB.

To my knowledge what you're asking can't be done, at least not this way. What you're describing (renaming the table prefix) is a way to have multiple nuke sites sharing the same database. I could be totally off here, but I've never heard of, nor can I imagine how, multiple PHPBB database tables under one nuke site. I hope that someone else can help you because I would be interested to know how that would be done otherwise.

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 3:33 pm

well, just a quick thought. Like raven said, actully integrating the databases i think is not feasable, but an interesting way to maybe pull it off......

create 4 databases. if theres no limit on database installations. Have 1 database that is your NUKE installation, within the NUKE installation you can run your main forum. In a block, hyperlink to the other 3 BB installations. have the home buttons on those forums link back to your main Nuke site.

Interesting concept. glad you brought it up.