Posted by Toby A Inkster on 07/22/07 01:37

Sanders Kaufman wrote:

> If the discussion forum uses a "users" table, then the developer can
> isolate one from the other by specifying a unite table prefix.

Yep -- it's a fairly common construct. It's arguably better to use
schemas, but not all RDBMSs have very good support for that.

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Parsing an HTML Table with PEAR's XML_HTTPSax3
http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/07/20/html-table-parsing/

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