changing databases

[chickenwings]

is switching to a different database as easy as updating the configure.php files or is there more to it than that? say i had my database setup perfectly and i backed it up but then someone accidentally deleted things from it and i just wanted to create a new database, insert my backed up data into it and then link zen cart to that

thanks

[afo]

That should work. Create the new database, load the information into it and change the database name, user and password in the configure.php files.

[schoolboy]

If you installed modules that added or amended tables/fields to the original database, then its better to create a new EMPTY database and import the backup into that - as long as the backup will CREATE the tables before populating them...