[wp-hackers] List of constants

John Blackbourn johnbillion+wp at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 19:25:25 UTC 2009


Sorry, meant to add that I've been using this on a statistics database
for a good few months now and no issues at all have come up. Works
just like $wpdb.

2009/9/29 John Blackbourn <johnbillion+wp at gmail.com>:
> It's really easy.
>
> $mydb = new wpdb( [user], [password], [db name], [db host] );
>
> and then just use $mydb where you would normally use $wpdb.
>
> 2009/9/29 Sharon Chambers <sharon at brewerradio.com>:
>> Ooh!  Could it be possible I'm going about something the wrong way? :P
>>
>> I have multiple WP installations on the same server/same db...different domains...sharing some event data.  I have done things the hard way between the two, haven't I?  Instead of creating a new wpdb instance, I directly modified the post/postmeta tables to propagate this data from one installation to the other.  (Even though I was mildly aware that this wasn't good form, I opted for quick and dirty--never a good idea.)
>>
>> Anything I would need to keep in mind if creating another instance of wpdb?  I already have my code setup as a plugin on one server, with an admin option screen to give the name of the other install's prefix...
>>
>> Thanks, Otto (and Ozh for the inquiry)!
>> -Sharon
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Otto
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:43 PM
>> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
>> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] List of constants
>>
>> It's possible you might want to create a new instance of wpdb at some
>> point and connect it to another set of tables (in the same database).
>>
>> Constants can't be redefined during runtime. Globals can.
>>
>> -Otto
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Ozh <ozh at planetozh.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>>>> A fair number of the ones that matter are listed in this article:
>>>> http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php
>>>>
>>>
>>> Something I've never wondered before: any reason $table_prefix is a
>>> var while all other stuff are consts? Or is it just legacy?
>>>
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