Xibo

Support for table prefix during installing

Asked by Tim

It would be nice when you can setup a database table prefix when installing Xibo just like Wordpress.

As far i can see this is not possible even in 1.7.0 alpha 1.

With this function it would be possible to install Xibo multiple times in a single database.
One for demo and one for production,

Most simple hosters only deliver one database per site.

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#1

We really don't recommend doing that. It makes it very hard to roll back if
there are issues during upgrade or if you need to restore a backup

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Tim (info-u-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

You have a point, but it is also a limitation if you can't create a extra database.

A other advantage would be that all Xibo tables are sorted on the prefix in PHPMYADMIN or a other tool. Now there are tables starting with a a/b/d etc. If the tables are prefixed with "xibo_" you can easy see which tables belong to Xibo.

Not all users have a single database only for Xibo.

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#3

Feel free to log a blueprint if there isn't one already. My concern would
be by adding it we'd be recommending that configuration - and we very
definitely don't. The whole upgrade and installation process would also
have to be rewritten from scratch so I really don't see it being done any
time soon

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