One databse, two applicatins

[draggar]

My webhosting company gives me a finite number of databases and up until now this finite number was not a problem. Now, I've launched a seriues of sites that all need forums, which cut down on the number of databases that I have.

My question, a site needed two applications, phpBB and a blog for example, would it be feasible (I'm sure it's possible) to run both from the database? None of my databases are close to 1% of their allowed file size, so I am not worried about that for the time.

Would it be as simple as running the setup programs (I doubt this), some minor editing (I could probabaly do this) or am I looking at a catastrophic overhaul of the pho coding *and* the database to do this, or is it not even worth it and just look at what sites *really* need the database and trim from there?

[Habtom]

>> My question, a site needed two applications, phpBB and a blog
. . . or am I looking at a catastrophic overhaul of the pho coding *and* the database to do this

Nah, you can do it.

I have it in few sites, and I don't really see a performance difference. May be as the site grows and the data piles up you might need to put them independently.

Give a different prefix to the tables of phpBB from that of the blog, to easily identify them and to avoid replacing one with the other.

They will have a table name similar to the ff:
phpBB_table1
blog_table1

Habtom

[draggar]

Thank you, maybe I'll set up a frankensite to play with this before I put it on the site that will need it.

[LifeinAsia]

We have a number of sites pulling form the same databases. It's a trivial matter.