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By adamgerthel on
I'm currently trying out both 5.x and 6.x of drupal, to see which one fits my needs the best.
I'm out to get a good solid forum, but the "Advanced Forum" isn't quite enough. It has almost no settings and it's bugged in 6.x. The 5.x version is too much like the original drupal forum.
What I'm looking for is basically a forum where people can have avatars, are able to use functions like "quote" and "multi quote".
The simplemachines forum is good, but I want it integrated into the drupal site.
Doesn anyone have any suggestions?
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uieforum?
The "Advanced Forum" module is not a module per se but a series of theming tweaks that changes the presentation of the standard Drupal forum. After some hiccups (mostly mine), I have this working on my Drupal site, and it works very well.
UIEForum is an alternative forum module that is native to Joomla.
There is a bridge to PHPBB, and many large sites seem to prefer that over SMF these days.
I wouldn't write off the Drupal forum so quickly however; it does work nicely, you can use avatars, subscriptions, pm's, etc; and the tight integration with Drupal allows lots of admin flexibility. For my community, the users are very non-technical; and having the forum work the same way as the blog and articles is very powerful.
As I always say in these cases - which features do you need? If you want an all-in-one solution, or if the primary focus is content, then use Drupal as is. If the majority of the site is to be a forum then consider a major forum application, and then decide if you are going to need to bridge this back to Drupal at all to give you content. Horses for Courses....
Hope this helps,
Gareth
Well.. The Advanced Forum
Well..
The Advanced Forum module doesnt seem (as far as I can see) to support avatars, post counts etc. I've tried to get some of the addon modules for it to work, but to no avail.
Could you link me to your site? I'd like to take a look at how you're using the drupal forum.
PhpBB doesn't seem to have any modules that bridge the forum into the drupal site, and neither does smf. However, when I tried out drupal a year ago, I remember doing that (it had many bugs though).
I'm gonna look into the UIEforum now.
The forum is going to be the main part of the site, so, yes its' functions are very important.
Thanks,
Adam
Hi, Try nodeforum. It is in
Hi,
Try nodeforum. It is in cvs only. No project on Drupal yet, I applied for an account, but still no answer.
The code is on: http://drupal.org/node/234504
Please look at the code and file patches on http://drupal.org/node/234504
It is 90% working and has all node capabilties as other nodes!
greetings,
Martijn
My Forum is at
www.bkks.org.uk/forum
This is a live site, if somewhat new, and I would appreciate no test postings!
Does take a bit of kludging to get it to fly, but covers almost all of my needs.
phpBB info here http://drupal.org/node/217369
Gareth
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"The Advanced Forum module doesnt seem (as far as I can see) to support avatars, post counts etc."
Avatars are part of core. Just upload a picture and advforum will find it. Post counts were removed because the user stats module does it much better.
Michelle
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Michelle: Thanks, I realised
Michelle: Thanks, I realised that :)
Gareth: Could you be so kind as to let me know what Drupal version you are running and what modules you've added to Advanced Forum? What you've accomplished is exactly what I need :)
I quite like the Advanced forum, but it's only that nice on 6.x. In 5.x the threads still looks just like comments (as in this forum).
The problem for me is that most modules that I want only work for 5.x and not for 6.x. How well does the "legacy" module function? Is it possible (and easy) to use 5.x modules on drupal 6.x?
I tried UIE forum and it seems great, but there are some bugs that I can't seem to get around
Eh?
You have that backwards, Advforum is being developed in 5.x and that's where all the features are. The 6.x port is badly broken and not really usable.
Michelle
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I didn't really say that It
I didn't really say that It was working in 6.x I just said that the graphical interface for threads in the 5.x version is just like this forum, while in 6.x the threads look like threads do in other forums like phpBB. Or am I missing something?
Adam
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Yeah, I think so. http://socnet.shellmultimedia.com/node/795 is an example thread from the demo site. That looks nothing like the drupal.org forum.
The theming in 5.x and 6.x of advforum is identical, anyway. It's the code end of things where it's not ready for use with stuff like the "mark as read" broken and other bugs. So the "look" of the two versions is exactly the same.
Michelle
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Hmm.. The forum stopped
Hmm..
The forum stopped working for me now. I think I might have played around too much with different forum modules so I'm gonna try a fresh install of drupal to see if I can get things straight.
the forum is running on Drupal 5.2
Main modules are just advanced forum, it's recomended helpers, and private message. Don't think I've moved across to user stats yet (still migrating content). Also one bit of custom PHP in the template (can't get it to work in the "module" part of the code) to drag location out of the database; and again a custom PHP call to the private message code.
My editor is BUEditor, to which I will be adding a quote button shortly. I've also installed Smileys module, though I'm not 100% happy with it's interface.
The only thing lacking that I've been asked for is a count of #times the thread has been read. I don't regard this as terribly important, so it's not high priority - I've been told you can get this from statistics module but have yet to dig deep.
The theme I use is a modification of Roopletheme's newsflash - I believe Advforum support is built into these now (from Tapestry onwards)
Gareth