I am going to have two sites sharing ONE database table only. That is: each site has its own News, Forum and other common modules. But just one table has to be shared. Clearly things like multi-site hack is too much for this. Can anyone suggest an easier solution?

Or make it this way: if one has several MySQL databases on the server, how to easily access databases not belonging to a XOOP site? I would like to hack the core files and make a second database handle to do that but don't know where to start. Thanks