What I'd really like to see is common practice among MySQL-using programs is an identifying tag on each tablename- for example, wwwthread's users table would be wwwt_users, and the Messages table wwwt_Messages.

Or- and this would be even better- have the option to SET the common header in W3TVars.pm, and have that header automatically prepended to every table created or used by WWWThreads.

Why? Some of us only have one database in which to work, and you'd be amazed at how many different programs create the users table- all with different fields, of course.

Is this possible? Please say yes- otherwise I have to do the old search and replace and hope I don't bork anything too badly.

{bump} Scream- just want to get your thoughts on it? I think it could be done simply by abstracting the table names with variables, and for the people who don't want to be broke by upgrading, the defaults of those variables would be the same as the existing table names.. got me?

That's a fabulous suggestion.

Yes... This will also avoid the potential problem of using a table name that happens to be
a reserved word when you want to switch to a different database server.