Hey,

i wanted to make a kind of serie community sites
If a user register it should register on all forums but the forums should display individually each.

I maked 2 ideas to do this and i was wondering which one i could do best, or maybe if you got a solutions that is even better i also would like to know this.

1st idea was to make a different database for each forum + a different database for the membership and make like 2 different database connections on each page to connect to the forum database and the membership database.

2nd idea was just to make 1 database with a table members and a table posts, polls etc (just all things that a forum has needed) And in the table posts, polls etc i put like an extra field and call it forum, and in that field i put the name of the forum so i can use a select statement on that.

The 2nd idea seems to be the best to me but i was afraid the tables would get way to large if i get more forums and users go post a lot.

Please help me out,
Greetings Martin

I'd go for option 2.

If the database is structured well then the size shouldn't be an issue unless it gets massive.

ok thanx, i will do the second thing so thanx someguy

PHPBB is pretty simple to modify in terms of one membership working across multiple databases. You could also hack your forum software to use the same database but only display certain forums and a certain design on whatever URL it is called from. I have done this on my carforums.net site (as I own like 10 other car forum related names and a few have traffic) and it worked just fine, just took a little time to work properly (this was with vbulletin btw).

Good luck