By TLHines on

I'm running Drupal 5.x on a Bluehost shared host account, and have configured six related sites under one domain using a multisite installation (I'm using different modules and functions for each "section" of the site, so multisite seemed like the best fit). I'm using the current event module, which suits my needs just fine, but have had some difficulties sharing it across all my multisite installations. In other words, I want one table in the database for all events, which can be displayed on each site section. I've used "shared" prefixes, in the same manner I was able to share my user list across all sites, but that's given me some issues. In the site where the event is registered, the listing shows up fine. In one of the other sites, the listing is fine but goes to the "wrong" node for detail, and in the other four sites, it doesn't seem to show up at all. I'm guessing I may need to share the Node ID table, but am I opening up a whole other can of worms if I do so? Any thoughts, suggestions, ideas?

Right now, I'm just entering events in each of the sites, so it's a unique event on each--which works fine, because I'm not going to list a ton of events. But my needs may grow, so I thought I'd ask. You can get a general idea what I mean at my site, which lists the next upcoming event on each of the subsites.

Thanks for any input and suggestions in advance.

-TL Hines
http://www.tlhines.com

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Comments

neomenlo’s picture

neomenlo commented

You could probably use Organic Groups and make a simple Views modification

papile’s picture

papile commented

This will not work. Each site has its own node table. So the event module probably joins its tables with {node} and {node_revisions} which are all different. I have a complicated multisite thing going on where I have 10 sites managed by one. It is hard to do though.

You are not going to be able to do this without serious hacking. $node->nid on site A is != $node->nid on B. The reason it works on the site you posted it to is because it was assigned the correct nid there.

TLHines’s picture

TLHines commented

That's what I was kind of afraid of. It's not such a huge need that I want to start a hack-fest (something I'm ill-qualified to do, anyway). But maybe...I could do a feed, and put the feed in blocks on the other sites? I'll play around with it.

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wila commented

I know this is an old post, but the issue still remains actual IMHO.

Ever thought about a combination of Feeds and Node Import?