[support] Multiple DB connections within hook_cron

Earnie Boyd earnie at users.sourceforge.net
Fri Jan 25 19:17:52 UTC 2008


Quoting Chris Johnson <cxjohnson at gmail.com>:

> You don't need to use $db_prefix to use multiple databases.  It has an

This isn't the cause of the problem.

> entirely different purpose.  It's job is prefix the table names within
> a given database to prevent collision with other tables of the same
> name, perhaps being used by another application, or by multiple
> instances of Drupal sharing the same database.  It's mostly there to
> help folks who have low-end hosting arrangements and have one or
> limited databases.
>

It's mostly there so that you can prefix table names.  If the table 
names are prefixed then $db_prefix needs to be set.

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