By Hamilton56 on

Alright, I'm converting from a Joomla installation to Drupal, the ONLY thing I can see is the simplicity of the forum, are there any forum modules that have been developed other than what is built into Drupal? I'm looking for something a little more "forumy" if that makes any sense.

Any help is appreciated.

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Christefano-oldaccount’s picture

Christefano-oldaccount commented

Personally I like the flatforum module. It doesn't add any new features to the forum (unless you consider its more traditional UI a feature), and there are plenty of other modules that you can use to extend the core forum module's feature set.

http://drupal.org/project/flatforum

A working example of flatforum can be seen at http://fab3.cba.mit.edu/central/

Then there's the UIEForum, which completely replaces the core forum module. I don't think it jives with Drupal Way (posts aren't nodes, for instance, and the URLs are quite different) but it has many features you might be looking for.

http://drupal.org/project/uieforum

Again, there are plenty of modules you can use (including flatforum) that modify and extend the Drupal's core forum module.

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crick commented

I ran into this same issue when i switched over to drupal. I have found that I prefer using drupal's core forum.module along with the flatforum.module over the alternative uiforum.module. uiforum makes a nice and 'forumy' forum without much effort, however it's not as tightly integrated into the rest of drupal.

Here is a site i'm currently working on for one of my friends: http://www.utktriathlon.com

check out the forum section. I'm using the drupal forum module and flatforum module, both unmodified. The key to making it look like forum is in your theme. I made forum theme that resides in a in .../themes/forum so far it seems to work pretty well with all phptemplate themes and only requires adding some code to your theme's template.php file. there are two .css files inside .../themes/forum. one of them is used to format the look of the forum list pages and the other is used to format the look of the threads.

if you decide to go the flatforum route, i'd be more than happy to share my forum theme with you.

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boles commented

And I think a lot more of us.

Crick, your forum looks great. If you would want to share it with me, that would be great. I am afraid that my knowledge of Drupal at the moment isn't good enough to reacht such a result myself.

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sepeck commented

Please note the list of suggested contributed module on the forum handbook page for some additional ideas.

http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/forum

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crick commented

yeah, i'd be happy to share it with you. sorry for the slow response, been really busy. i'm going to set up a section for the forum theme on my personal site that i use for testing and whatnot. there will be instructions and you will be able to download a basic theme that you can then modify to fit your needs. give me a day or two and i'll provide the link.

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stevefree commented

That would be great Crick! Looking forward to that forum theme!!!

Hyper-1’s picture

Hyper-1 commented

Check out http://groups.drupal.org/drubb they're working on a list of modules you will need to create a more featured forum. Subscribe to the DruBB group so you'll be emailed any updates.

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crick commented

ok, here it is. sorry i took so much longer than i had said. i've been real busy and haven't had time to work on my own site. I put a zip file together that should have everything you need along with some instructions.

download it here:
www.crickster.com/forumtheme.zip

I threw that together pretty quickly so let me know if it gives you any trouble. this is for drupal 4.7

summit’s picture

summit commented

Hi,
Wil this forumtheme be updated to drupal 5 please?
Thanks in advance for considering this.

Greetings,
Martijn

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Flatforum is unmaintained. If you want something for D5+ use advanced forum.

Michelle

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