[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #2512: Allow PHP constant to set new options table in wp-config.php

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#2512: Allow PHP constant to set new options table in wp-config.php
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       Id:  2512            |      Status:  assigned                
Component:  Administration  |    Modified:  Mon Feb 27 09:35:11 2006
 Severity:  normal          |   Milestone:  2.1                     
 Priority:  normal          |     Version:  2.0.1                   
    Owner:  markjaquith     |    Reporter:  markjaquith             
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Old description:

> I've had several clients ask me to set up a test install of their blog so
> that they can try out theme changes and plugins without compromising
> their main blog.  If we let a constant determine the options table, they
> could use the same table_prefix as their main blog, but just specify a
> different options table so plugins, home/siteurl, themes could be
> different, but all the other blog data (posts, comments, links,
> categories) would be the same.
>
> I'm uploading a patch that should do this.  It does it dynamically, from
> the database, but this is really only going to be used for development
> purposes, so I think that's acceptable.  We can't save the option in the
> local options table because changes in the main blog won't be reflected.
> I'm open to suggestions here as to an alternate strategy.

New description:

 I've had several clients ask me to set up a test install of their blog so
 that they can try out theme changes and plugins without compromising their
 main blog.  If we let a constant determine the options table, they could
 use the same table_prefix as their main blog, but just specify a different
 options table so plugins, home/siteurl, themes could be different, but all
 the other blog data (posts, comments, links, categories) would be the
 same.

Comment (by markjaquith):

 [ok, I'm a retart...this was supposed to be a comment, not a description
 change]

  I'm uploading a patch that should do this.  It does it dynamically, from
  the database, but this is really only going to be used for development
  purposes, so I think that's acceptable.  We can't save the option in the
  local options table because changes in the main blog won't be reflected.
  I'm open to suggestions here as to an alternate strategy.

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