Small script to force tables to be created even if the database already

contains tables ... useful for sharing with other applications.

diff --git a/admin/forcetables.php b/admin/forcetables.php
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+<?PHP // $Id$
+
+    require("../config.php");
+
+/// Normally this file is never used.
+///
+/// It can be useful to jump-start a new moodle installation when 
+/// it is being installed into a database that already contains
+/// some tables.   
+/// 
+/// For this case you would call this script directly
+///
+/// Warning: this method ASSUMES that all existing tables with 
+/// have different names to any Moodle tables, so make sure 
+/// there aren't any Moodle-named tables in your database before
+/// using this script.   See lib/db/mysql.sql and mod/*/db/mysql.sql
+
+    if ($CFG->version) { // To avoid this being used on a working site.
+        echo "No need to use this";
+
+    } else {
+
+        $strdatabasesetup    = get_string("databasesetup");
+        $strdatabasesuccess  = get_string("databasesuccess");
+
+        print_header($strdatabasesetup, $strdatabasesetup, $strdatabasesetup);
+        if (file_exists("$CFG->libdir/db/$CFG->dbtype.sql")) {
+            $db->debug = true;
+            if (modify_database("$CFG->libdir/db/$CFG->dbtype.sql")) {
+                $db->debug = false;
+                notify($strdatabasesuccess);
+            } else {
+                $db->debug = false;
+                error("Error: Main databases NOT set up successfully");
+            }
+        } else {
+            error("Error: Your database ($CFG->dbtype) is not yet fully supported by Moodle.  
+                   See the lib/db directory.");
+        }
+        print_continue("index.php");
+    }
+