Multi Site

All a bit of a mystery to everyone else as well then?

Yes this is secret feature i think :)

And I'm don't understand this feature...

It's very secret indeed, but this should give you a hint:
http://php-fusion.co.uk/forum/viewthr...d_id=22560

(it's the first thread in the content administration forum at this site, btw ;))

Really? And you think that I didn't read through this forum before posting my request on here?

If you ACTUALLY read my post you will see that I am asking if multi sites can be set up with ONE core code.

Your replies were not helpful one little bit.

Does anyone have a sensible reply or is this forum like most others around the web, where people just post rubbish and clog up senible thread because they have nothing better to do.

PHPFusion supports only table prefixes, which allows you to use same database for several PHPFusion installations, however there is no way to make it possible to use one core for multiple websites. With little coding, there is way to share themes from PHPFusion installation A with PHPFusion installation B if both are installed at the same server, the rest cannot be shared because of PHPFusion architecture/standards.

OK, Many thanks for the informative reply, much appreciated.

Another quick question, we currently have around 8 sites, all have been in use on version 6 for a while now so each has it's own members and forums.

Is there an easy way to merge into one database, merging all the members into on table but somehow retaining the forums (with the inherant links between users and forum entries this would at first site appear to be very fiddly to achieve).?

Yes, its possible, for example:
PHPFusion installation A has database prefix 'fusionmain_',
to make PHPFusion installation B use users table from PHPFusion installation A, edit includes/multisite_include.php file in PHPFusion installation B, replace with
now PHPFusion installation A and B uses same users database.
Note: all PHPFusion installations must use same database.

EDIT:
If you have many custom user groups, they will not work on both installations, to share user groups edit
same way as users table definition.

Thanks, but I am not sure that this would work.

Say on A User Koopa is member 12 and on B User Koopa is member 23, but merging the user tables into one Koopa would either have to be 12 or 23 and the links to one of the forums would now be incorrect.

By doing like i posted above, PHPFusion B will completely ignore its own users table, and will use ONLY PHPFusion A users table. This will not copy all users from PHPFusion B to PHPFusion A users table. If PHPFusion B uses same users table as PHPFusion A and you delete user from PHPFusion B, it will be deleted for both, same if you delete user from PHPFusion A.