CiviCRM support was added in the 1.2.x line for data sharing. Yippee!

However, the CiviCRM default installation does not install its tables with the prefix of jos_ (or anything customizable, for that matter). If you don't want to "share" data, but use JMS to create another CiviCRM site, how do you get CiviCRM to replicate its data to the new site if its table prefixes don't match the template or master site?

I considered pre-pending all the tables with jos_ (or whatever), but I think this will break Civi.

Any ideas?

Civic CRM does not use table prefix and use its own system.
The table prefix is "civicrm_%".
JMS just share all those tables in addition of the users.

When you are creating several websites into the same DB, by definition, the CiviCRM is identical as they use their own table prefix.
If you are sharing CiviCRM with JMS between separated DB, JMS create links between the DB to share the same tables.

Cool. Figured that.

But how about if you want to create a NEW website with a blank CiviCRM database (kind of like how other components work in JMS)? Is that even possible?

As I have told you CiviCRM is an application that is not joomla and that has its own table prefix.
Therefore if you want to create several webste into the same DB, by definition, your CiviCRM will be unique and you have to share it.

If you want to have specific CiviCRM for each website, you have to create as many DB as you have slave site.

Okay. Got it.

I was going off the assumption that a new database would have to be created. But looking at the Civi structure more, it would be probably quite complicated for JMS to rewrite Civi's OWN custom config file for each new database (even though replicating the database might be easy), so that makes more sense now.

Thanks!

We are also using CiviCRM. Recently, when i upgraded civicrm and Multisites, my civicrm installation became corrupted.

I'm having problems now getting users to share properly over slave sites. If i reinstall my sites from the ground up, which is looking like a plausable option at this point, would following
tutorial.jms2win.info/jms12x/usersharing/index.html
as a tutorial work so long as civi is in the template site?