Hi -

i know multisites doesn't use database tables... is there a way we can check the availability of the slave site using ajax before the user hit the submit button?

Inside JMS, there is an API that allow collect all the list of slave site like you would do it with a select * from table.

So it is possible to create an ajax to "ping" the server to verify if a name already exists. The Site ID correspond to a directory name or a set of directory name.

Quick question -

how and where do i access the API?
is there a documentation avaliable?

NO, this is not documented.
This is inside the JMS core.
This is computed by the model that manage the site.

If you want to develop an ajax, you need to create a PHP code (server side) that will received the request from the javascript and verify the site ID.

This is something specific to develop and use the low level api of JMS.
In particular the manage model but becarefull that the internal structure is no considered as static as this is not a public API.

The only thing that is public and present in the user manual is the "utility" api that allow get info on a website or update an existing website.
So I suppose that you could use this "utility" to check if a slave site already exists.

See chapter 4.2

Thank you Sir!

Edwin -

one more questions sir... i know the list of sites is save in a php file in array... could you tell me where??? i remember like around an year ago when i used the software... it was in administrator/components/com_multisites/somefile.php... but i can't find it now.

Thanks
Chetan