By ceski on

Hi guys,

Is the phpbb3 module already available for drupal 6.x ?
If not, what do suggest me ?

I'm starting from scratch with drupal6 and phpbb3, so I don't need to migrate anything.
I installed drupal 6.1 and phpbb 3.0 and I would like to integrate phpbb in drupal.

It is important that I have a forum running before further dev/config on drupal. Should I just wait and already start the forum, being seperate from drpal and integrate it later on when the module will be available? Or should I downgrade to drupal5.5 ??

Thanks for your opinion/help !!

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daveslc’s picture

daveslc commented

Any answer to this question? Is the phpbb3 module already available for drupal 6.x ?

naheemsays’s picture

naheemsays commented

but have you considered using the drupal forum?

advanced_forum module and a few others should set you up nicely for the future IMO.

http://drupal.org/project/advanced_forum

daveslc’s picture

daveslc commented

Does advanced forum provide functionality, better search, and better user experience?

The drupal forum is so utterly dreadful that I have looked at other cms's that have a better bridge say to something like phbbb3
It looks terrible, it's not easily searchable, frumpy, etc.

naheemsays’s picture

naheemsays commented

I had previously found phpbb search to be useless, and the same is also true for drupal search (mainly because it does not work with pages of comments).

As for features, it depends on what you want and need.

Advanced_forum is a glue module and helpts with integration with other modules.

Looks are all about theming, so it may take a little effort, but Advanced_forum should give you a good start if you want a more traditional look - but that can also be achieved without the module.

No idea what you mean by frumpy, but for me the integration of the internal forums/users etc was more than enough to move over and I found drupal to be faster than phpbb2 (that I was using before hand).

I cannot tell you that the drupal forums are better for your needs - because I do not know what they are or what you want, but have a play around. They may impress you.

daveslc’s picture

daveslc commented

It seems as though you cannot edit your posts in Drupal Forums, nor is there a feature that emails you when a thread is updated. Those are pretty basic.

Also, no full featured stuff like phpbb.

Why is Drupal's forum so low level? Or at least, why isn't there a concerted effort to have a bridge?

Vent: Drupal seems to do some stuff very well, but some stuff is done so poorly that it really makes one wonder. (e.g. in a CMS, I want to be able to mass update lots of content -- not one article at a time. There's no documentation for doing this in D6. In fact, there doesn't seem to be documentation on the database E.g. In a community site, having a decent forum is a necessity. E.g. a search function that doesn't distinguish between regular nodes and forum pages -- making it really, really useless. E.g. The main developers starting a fork in their own project with separate forums etc.)

naheemsays’s picture

naheemsays commented

The drupal Forums are pretty basic, but they can be augmented by the features that you need.

Post editing - no idea but I am quite sure this is possible somehow - I think use the flat comments module and then all replies will not be threaded, but to the original comment.

As for notifications, there is comment_noty module which allows you to set up the notifications.

As for full "featured stuff" - depends on what you mean. There probably is some functionality lacking in the contributed modules, but that is offset by other modules/features.

The biggest weakness IMO is in the comment mover module as it forces you to move one comment (well, subthread, but this is useless if using flat comments) at a time instead of batches.