# \[rant/plea\] db table names

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rant-plea-db-table-names/110950>\
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**Created:** [May 21, 2004, 10:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rant-plea-db-table-names/110950 "2004-05-21T10:24:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![koorb](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/koorb/32/424_2.png) [@koorb](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/koorb)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 10:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rant-plea-db-table-names/110950/1 "2004-05-21T10:24:13Z")

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I dont know if this bugs anyone else, but when I use php apps so often the table names are just plain things like `users` or `config` or somthing, which is ok on my localhost, but if I wanted to use these apps on my webhost, I only have two databases and you could have two apps using the same table names! why do programmers always seem to hard code the table names into thier code. A call for standards here 🙂 label your tables yourAppName\_tableName that way you can filter the display of tables per application (at least you can in phpmyadmin) and this stops any conflict. also a way to change the `yourAppName` part is good to allow multiple instalations. Some apps do this already, like phpBB I noticed and others, I always do it, sooo much easier (-:

This is just one mans option :te: