Drupal Inquiries
Hi to All,
I've been looking into the modules for Drupal and have a few inquiries:
1. Which Drupal version is better to use as of the moment, 5x or 6x? (It seems that 5x has more modules available currently but I'm guessing that 6x has more security and some added features)
2. Is it possible to have different themes for some pages?
eg. Forum Section - a blue colored theme
Other Pages - green colored theme
3. Is it possible to have two sets of forums for a Drupal application (each forum having different user account types and fields)
eg. Forum1 - Users w/ numerous details (login, password, email, complete name, country)
Forum2 - Users w/ simple details (login, password, email)
The reason I'm asking is that for the forum2 what I want is for users to have a different user creation Form w/o showing the other details (in forum1). Basically forum1 & forum2 will not be related at all.
4. Is there an existing module that can integrate with the user accounts (registered users) to a chat application having different rooms and the chat user display (users in the chat room) being customizable? (Like say when a user hovers the other chat users, he can see some details like full name)
I've been looking at the chat modules and haven't found anything that I that does this. So I'm guessing that I should just use a module and 'tweak' it? =)
Kind Regards & Thanks!
answer to 1 & 2
1. It depends on your needs. There are more modules for D5, but there are lots of aded features in D6. I would say: use D6 if you can. D5 is still actively maintained (and it will be until D7 is released) so there is no reason to assume that D6 is more secure than D5.
2. Yes. If you base your theme on the Zen starterkit (http://drupal.org/project/zen) you will find lots of convenient classes automatically added to the body tag. They are very usefull for styling. Other themes do this as well, I don't know which ones.
3 & 4 - I don't know.
Marc
Thank You
Hi marcvangend,
Thank you very much for the answers, I'll try out D5 for now as it seems that 5 has more modules available for what I need. I've taken a quick look at zen starterkit and it looks like it might be what I'm looking for. Thank you again.
For number 3, you will need
For number 3, you will need to use an access control module to restrict some users to certain forums. There is a forum access control module specifically for this purpose. Others -- such as taxonomy access control lite -- also will work.
For number 4, there is a module called hovertip; I do not use it and don't know if it will work for what you wish to use it for, but you might want to investigate it.
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Chat Module to start?
Hi David,
Thank you for the reply =). I'll try to dig in the access control module and see what I can get. About the chat module, do you have a suggestion on what module I can start with to integrate the hovertip easily? I'm a Drupal noob so I still don't know if integrating modules like adding the hovertip to a chat module is difficult or not.
Kind Regards
Chatroom module works very
Chatroom module works very nicely:
http://drupal.org/project/chatroom
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I am a writer, researcher and solo drupal freelancer.
Je peux communiquer en français. / Я могу общаться на русском языке.
Thank You =)
Hi bwv ,
Ok I'll try it out and see how it goes, Thanks again!