Comments on: BuddyPress and MultiDB

By: Moving from Multi-DB to SharDB on WPMu at bavatuesdays

Moving from Multi-DB to SharDB on WPMu at bavatuesdays — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:09:04 +0000

[...] list of code I stole from D’Arcy, and he breaks the whole thing down better than I ever could here. Now I imagine SharDB doesn;t have this issue, but just wanted to get a sense if anyone else [...]

By: dnorman

dnorman — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:02:17 +0000

oh. no. wait.

you’d add the BP tables into the same global _database_ – so you’d have wpmu_global.bp_activity_sitewide etc…

By: dnorman

dnorman — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:00:41 +0000

yeah. throw the BP tables in wpmu_global – if your users haven’t been actively using BP (messages, profiles, groups, etc…) then just let BP recreate the tables as a fresh install.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:49:12 +0000

OK, I’m confused, which isn;t hard to do. My global table is titled wpmu_global
add_global_table(‘umwblogs_wpmu_global’);

Are the buddypress tables being added to this database, i.e. wpmu_global?

OK, and beyond that, I installed BuddyPress, but didn’t install the theme or make it specific to anyone on blog, rather just let it run behind through spaces like http://umwblogs.org /members or /blogs or /members/admin

Now, what has me confused is where the hell those databases are amongst my 18 DBs, I can;t seem to locate them, and the fact I use phpMyAdmin makes it more complicated I’m sure.

Sorry to be such a pain in the neck, I know you have a day job beyond helping my sorry ass

By: dnorman

dnorman — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:38:41 +0000

this assumes that you’ve added a global database server – using the add_db_server() function at the bottom of wp-content/db-config.php

By: dnorman

dnorman — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:36:50 +0000

I don't know what add_umwblogs_wpmu_global() is - is that a custom function? I just edited wp-content/db-config.php and slapped the code block (with calls to the stock add_global_table() function) from the blog post after the other global table declarations (about line 40 in my file).

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:23:27 +0000

So my Global database is umwblogs_wpmu_global, so I would just add this to multidb-config

// BuddyPress
add_umwblogs_wpmu_global(‘bp_activity_sitewide’);
add_umwblogs_wpmu_global(‘bp_activity_user_activity’);
add_umwblogs_wpmu_global(‘bp_activity_user_activity_cached’);
add_umwblogs_wpmu_global(‘bp_friends’);
add_umwblogs_wpmu_global(‘bp_groups’);
add_umwblogs_wpmu_global(‘bp_groups_groupmeta’);
add_umwblogs_wpmu_global(‘bp_groups_members’);
add_umwblogs_wpmu_global(‘bp_groups_wire’);
add_umwblogs_wpmu_global(‘bp_messages_messages’);
add_umwblogs_wpmu_global(‘bp_messages_notices’);
add_umwblogs_wpmu_global(‘bp_messages_recipients’);
add_umwblogs_wpmu_global(‘bp_messages_threads’);
add_umwblogs_wpmu_global(‘bp_notifications’);
add_umwblogs_wpmu_global(‘bp_user_blogs’);
add_umwblogs_wpmu_global(‘bp_user_blogs_blogmeta’);
add_umwblogs_wpmu_global(‘bp_user_blogs_comments’);
add_umwblogs_wpmu_global(‘bp_user_blogs_posts’);
add_umwblogs_wpmu_global(‘bp_xprofile_data’);
add_umwblogs_wpmu_global(‘bp_xprofile_fields’);
add_umwblogs_wpmu_global(‘bp_xprofile_groups’);
add_umwblogs_wpmu_global(‘bp_xprofile_wire’);

By: dnorman

dnorman — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:08:39 +0000

I don’t think I’ll need to – it seems to be working as expected now…

By: dnorman

dnorman — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:08:19 +0000

the tables were created in the database for one site that I’d been using to test BuddyPress, so I just dumped them from the database, deleted the (empty) ones in the global database, and imported the dump into the global database.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:40:12 +0000

Also, is it your plan to delete the existing bp_ tables and start fresh so that everything populates accordingly on a re-install of BuddyPress?