I have simple photo album website that I use to show my pictures to family members around the country. Its devoted to pictures of my first baby son who is now 7 months old. I have another son due to arrive in about one month. My simple website is no longer sufficient. I think I want to use Coppermine to organize the photos and movies. I plan to set up two primary sections - one for each son. Then in each section I am going to set up a sub section for each year. Under each year, I am going to set up a section for photos and a section for movies.
My current host has not responded to any of my emails in over one month. I am looking to transfer my site to a new host. I have created a shortlist of hosts. The one host I am leaning towards has a plan that includes 1 MySQL database (this host also has more expensive plans that includes more than one MySQL databases). I know nothing about Coppermine other than the many forums I belong to. I learned that MySQL database info was needed when I tried to set up Coppermine on my website. I had assumed that one website needs only one MySQL database until I asked some questions in another forum. Not knowing enough to ask the question properly, I was given information that sounded very confusing and contradictory. So my question comes down to this - Based on what I plan to do with Coppermine, does it sound like I am going to need more than 1 MySQL database. If not (and boy am I happy about that), then can you tell me under what circumstances more than 1 MySQL database is needed?
Thanks for your time and courtesy!
You will only ever need one database for coppermine. You can have coppermine share the database with anything else you might have on your site. There is a thread about webhosting for coppermine here (http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=6021.0) you might be interested in.
You can even have multiple installations of coppermine on the same database, just using different table prefixes for each install.
The link you are reffering to doesn't seem to work, do you know of aonther usefull link on this toppic?
That link is now here - http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=19645.0