Hello

At the risk of talking to myself (sorry but its therapeutic ), can someone confirm if this is still the best way forward...

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Yes, that's a way to go. The other one would be to use categories.

To extend the first (preferred) way: Alex's example uses shared user table and user cache table. Your explanation suggests, that all forums/boards will be used by the same community. In this case it seems to be useful to unify the tables for smilies and banlists to.

To answer the other question, in case of use of different categories you can set a class i.e. for the HTML element body, a single name for every single category. So you can handle the background colours and any other CSS rule category dependant.

Attention: This will blow your stylesheet up.

If you use different installations for every forum/board, you can specify i.e. colours in the CSS file of the installation.

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