[development] Domain Manager

[lorenz schori]

Hi Ken

I did a very similar module based on vocabularies but did not release  
it to the community yet. I also implemented the possibility to  
override variables and menu entries on a per-domain basis.

Source is available here:
hxxp://znerol.ch/files/sitevariants/

The site where the module is installed has some special content for  
different regions (just like yours) and some theme gimmicks (like the  
picture in the header).
hxxp://bern.openwireless.ch/
hxxp://sg.openwireless.ch/

FYI: I plan to move away from that mechanism in favor of the standard  
way of sharing tables using sites/bla/settings.php and possibly using  
feeds and aggregators to link to shared content on a special  
subdomain for two reasons:
* My users often where very confused about the fact that the changes  
they make to "their" content will be visible on other subdomains too.
* I don't like the fact that the very same content is reachable using  
different URIs.
* The goal of our site is to build a community platform and only  
separate the few things which actually are different amongst the  
local projects like some network-admin-stuff, locative information  
and some status and project information...

If you find some interesting bits in the code feel free to just take  
it for your project.

Lorenz

On 02.10.2007, at 01:17, Ken Rickard wrote:

> For those who attended the 'Affiliated Sites' presentation in  
> Barcelona -- or who I told about the module otherwise.
>
> I have committed the initial code for the Domain Manager module.
>
> http://drupal.org/project/domain
>
> Documentation should be finished by end of week.
>
> In a nutshell, it uses registered third-level domains and  
> node_access() to provide an affiliated content model.  The site(s)  
> share all tables, but content can be partitioned to all sites, one  
> site, or a selection of sites.
>
> See the demo at http://www.skirt.com/map
>
> - Ken Rickard
> agentrickard