RE: [PHP] Two websites need to share part of one database, suggestions please

2005-07-11 Thread Chris W. Parker
André Medeiros on Monday, July 11, 2005 3:08 PM said: > XML is quite easy. Let's say you're making a search for books, and you > have site1.com searching site2.com for some stuff. > > site2.com could have some sort of "back end" like I see what you're saying. But t

Re: [PHP] Two websites need to share part of one database, suggestions please

2005-07-11 Thread André Medeiros
XML is quite easy. Let's say you're making a search for books, and you have site1.com searching site2.com for some stuff. site2.com could have some sort of "back end" like http://site2.com/_backend/search.php?keywords=a+book That would search it's database for the keywords "a book". It could ge

RE: [PHP] Two websites need to share part of one database, suggestions please

2005-07-11 Thread Chris W. Parker
André Medeiros on Monday, July 11, 2005 12:44 PM said: > What about using web-services (something ala xml?). Could that be > considered an option? No because I don't how to use that stuff. :) Chris. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe

Re: [PHP] Two websites need to share part of one database, suggestions please

2005-07-11 Thread André Medeiros
What about using web-services (something ala xml?). Could that be considered an option? On 7/11/05, Brad Pauly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/8/05, Chris W. Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Which option should I go for? Is there another option I'm not > > considering? > > Another possi

Re: [PHP] Two websites need to share part of one database, suggestions please

2005-07-11 Thread Brad Pauly
On 7/8/05, Chris W. Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which option should I go for? Is there another option I'm not > considering? Another possibility would be adding a new table that relates products to sites. This allows a one (product) to many (sites) relationship without changing the produ

RE: [PHP] Two websites need to share part of one database, suggestions please

2005-07-11 Thread Nathan Tobik
This seems to be the best option of the one you presented. If you start duplicating data you will have a situation where your data will get out of sync eventually. You can have a lookup table with the keys to the items that belong to website two, just look in the lookup table to get your key, the

RE: [PHP] Two websites need to share part of one database,suggestions please

2005-07-08 Thread Robert Cummings
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 19:46, Chris W. Parker wrote: > Robert Cummings > on Friday, July 08, 2005 3:32 PM said: > > > > Use a bitvector field in the table and use a bitmask for filtering for > > which sites can access what products. > > I think I understand what a b

RE: [PHP] Two websites need to share part of one database,suggestions please

2005-07-08 Thread Chris W. Parker
Robert Cummings on Friday, July 08, 2005 3:32 PM said: > Use a bitvector field in the table and use a bitmask for filtering for > which sites can access what products. I think I understand what a bitmask is after doing some research but would you please give me an

Re: [PHP] Two websites need to share part of one database, suggestions please

2005-07-08 Thread Robert Cummings
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 18:20, Chris W. Parker wrote: > Hello, > > We have two websites. One website is already up and running, the other > is not. > > The first website (I'll call it one.com) contains a large number of the > products and is meant for a specific audience. The second website (I'll >