[eluser]jleequeen[/eluser]
Hello All,
I would appreciate some thoughts on the subject of application management. I manage 4 separate applications that I'm recoding using CI. Each of the employees at my job all use these applications. Right now everything is segmented and each application has there own user tables, databases, etc.
Since I'm rewriting these apps using CI, I am toying around with the idea to consolidate the databases and only having one user table, sessions table..etc. I've seen how CI can be used with multiple applications (each having there own index.php file) so that is an option now. I'm just wondering from real world experience whether it would be a good thing or not to consolidate these apps into one large app, or keep them small and separate. Some of the tables could certainly be shared, but the majority couldn't be. I guess the options I have are as followed.
1. One large app, one large database.
2. 4 small apps, one large database, 1 backend admin for all 4 apps.
3. 4 small apps each with there own database and admin section. Nothing shared.
Any ideas from anyone on there experiences with this situation? Thanks in advance.
