• Madoor
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  • Registered: 2004-05-31
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Topic: the database

I'll be building my whole homepage upon the punbb forum so I can use template and login system for all pages and not just for the forum. Do you think this is a good idea? Or maybe I should say: do you think it'll cause me any trouble? Will the homepage be better/faster if I don't use the same style the forum has?

And then another question, but this time about the punbb database; is it recommended to make a new database for the news and comment (and so on) tables, or can I use the same database the punbb tables is located in? Why I ask this is because if all tables is located in the same database I would only need one database connection and you have already set that in your forum code. So if I can use the template (etc) to build by homepage with I don't need to make another connection to another database..

I hope I didn't make the text and the questions to complicated now wink

  • From: 127.0.0.1
  • Registered: 2001-11-02
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Re: the database

There are no particular issues you need to worry about and as you said yourself, putting it in the same database will make life a lot easier for you since you can just use $db.

"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."

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  • Madoor
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Re: the database

ok, thank you for thar quick answer! punbb 1.2 will still be using this easy template right!? so you can schange everything easily.

  • From: 127.0.0.1
  • Registered: 2001-11-02
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Re: the database

Yes. The markup will change, but not the template system. We might add a new template for the admin interface though. We'll see.

"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."

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