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Separate Blog Tables for Tiki

posts: 33 United States

Greetings — In the default Tiki installation, when a blog is created it goes to a single database table. I am set to teach four college courses in the fall, and I want each of my students to create a personal blog. But that's a lot of blogs (perhaps 120), and it would be nice to have four separate database tables, one for each course. (At present I get around this need by making four separate wiki "gateway" pages on which I could manually provide hyperlinks to the blogs for each course, but that requires too much "keeping track.") I know how to make a database table using PhPMyAdmin and MySQL, but I'm not sure how much is involved in setting up four separate tables for blogs — how much php work am I looking at here, or is it not as complicated a task as I suspect it is? Any advice would be appreciated. I'll eventually make a close study of the tech books I have on hand, but perhaps someone could give me a basic idea of what needs to be done. Many thanks, Al.

posts: 2881 United Kingdom

I would suggest making use of the Multi-Tiki feature, that is a seperate tikiwiki database for each of the courses, but you would need to code up more routines for sharing users, permissions and any other data you wish.

120 blogs isnt all that much for a system like TikiWiki. If you wanted to improve the display on listing blogs, you should add a filter to filter by course instead maybe . That would be only a couple of hours work at the very most. Then still you have a single tikiwiki installation to manage.

Hope it helps, contact me if you want more details.

Damian
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