Hi Russ, You could install into an existing database, but there's no table name prefix option so it's possible that you could have a table name conflict with one of the FarCry tables (there is a very small number of tables that have somewhat generic sounding names: container, refCategories, refObjects). You would have to evaluate this yourself to see if you have any conflicts.
Multiple websites aren't supported out of the box - we've implemented this for clients by partitioning the site tree and switching out application names and plugins, or by keying content by a siteID. However when it comes to "sharing" content we've found that it can be more trouble than its worth, for a number of reasons; is the content always shared on all sites or only on some sites, are your verity/solr search collections shared as well, can search results appear on any site, should search results link to a particular site for a particular piece of content, will some content need a special exception on one site but not others, are all content contributors aware that changing shared content will modify other websites, etc... This kind of complexity with sharing content can trip you up at many points, even if you have a discreet strategy to handle particular edge cases. For the sake of flexibility, not just for FarCry but for things like maintenance, disaster recovery, being able to set up / move sites to new front-end servers / db servers, etc, I'd *always* try to recommend a database per site :) Non-developers can easily edit and publish HTML pages and other content, we've got clients with a wide range of experience with editing content for the web. cheers -- Justin On Oct 28, 8:50 am, Russ <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a way to install FarCry using an existing non-empty database? > My reasons for doing so are complicated, so I won't go into that. > Ideally, I would install it and have all of the table names prefixed > with something. > > Also, I need a CMS solution that allows for multi-website building but > also content sharing between those sites. Is FarCry well suited for > that. > > Oh, one more thing... :) Can non web developers easily use FarCry to > manage the day to day tasks of keeping a website up to date and > looking nice? > > And, yes I need to download and evaluate it myself, but time is a > precious commodity right now. > > Thanks in advance. -- You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google group. To post, email: [email protected] To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev -------------------------------- Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry
