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<DIV>I've done many multisites but the only time I've shared tables was for testing on a module I wrote. I have backup / development copies of all my sites on my PC and they are all in a single instance of whichever core they run on.</DIV>
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<DIV>There is an alternative: it's called Domain_access, which is specifically for portal sites.</DIV>
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<DIV>It sounds like the only thing a multisite will give you is only one core or contrib upload to do. This is both good and bad.<BR> </DIV>
<P><FONT color=#ff007f size=4 face="bookman old style, new york, times, serif"><EM><STRONG>Nancy</STRONG></EM></FONT></P>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Pooya</DIV>
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<DIV>I've done a few sites using drupal but never a multi. I got this new customer who wants me to make a huge portal website for manchester united team. It's a multi language site, which contains 2 sub-sites: Manchester United and England national football team(default is manchester). after lots of talking over content and features, I found out that they need all galleries, news, menus, front-page and other features to be different for each team. This needs 2 different themes at least(each with two language rtl and ltr). here's a shot: http://016.img98.net/out.php/i75495_1.png</DIV>
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<DIV>To be honest I prefer a framework like CI for such a thing and if using drupal avoid multi-sites cause I don't have enough experience with.</DIV>
<DIV>My question here is <STRONG>what if I don't want to use multi-sites</STRONG> and share some tables. Drupal's a good choice? Have you ever tried to do such a thing? any strategy? anything would help me hear rly.</DIV>
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<DIV>PS. I want to use drupal because of real good community, and the ability which makes me do this real fast(I want to end this project in less than 2month max). Also developing's much easier, they may ask for more features in like a year after site's done. I have lots of trouble these days adding features to old projects.</DIV><BR>-- <BR>
<DIV dir=ltr>Pooya Sanooei</DIV></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>