The title may be misleading, but bear with me. I would like to use CakePHP to create one application, which then has multiple instances. Think of it, if you will, as different websites being powered by the same application--not a copy of it. Each instance (website) would have its own database and website-specific files and configurations, but they all load the same CakePHP application to power it.
The basic idea as I have it is to have different directories, each containing a .php file with configuration options, which then loads the application from another directory. Something like this: /mysite /myothersite /anothersite /app ...where the first three directories contain the single .php file, images and possibly a cache, and the app holds the application. The reason I want to do this is because of it being easier to maintain one installation per server than having 10 or 20 or 50 separate installations of the same application. Upgrading would be infinitely easier. It might even be faster and take less resources from the server. For the record, I'm somewhat new to CakePHP. I'm an experience PHP developer who also have extensive Rails background, so while I'm new to Cake, I'm not new to PHP or the MVC architecture. My question is whether this is a viable approach. Is using one CakePHP app with different databases going to screw up caching? Can I disable the caching and build my own caching system in the individual directories? Is it going to make things slower than if I had individual CakePHP apps for all of the websites? How would the single application handle, say, 50 websites? Basically, I'm looking for thoughts and ideas on whether the single installation of the application with X number of websites is a better approach than the X number of individual installations. Any help would be appreciated. - Sebastian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
