Advanced forum comments as nodes
| Project: | Advanced Forum |
| Version: | 6.x-2.x-dev |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed |
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I've been thinking over some of the things I eventually would like to do with my forums, and one of them is add support for an imagefield. I don't think there are any equal solutions to imagefield atm, at least as far as the choice of display options goes. I could be way off here, and would be happy to find that such is the case...
So, the first the thing to come to mind is having comments behave as nodes so I can simply add an imagefield. Not sure if that's wise or not. I have read some things here and there regarding this and that there are some performance issues... Not sure how severe that would be however.
I Did find an existing module that set comments as nodes though, and I wonder if that will play nice with advanced forum? If not... Will advanced forum provide it's own solution in the future, or is it just a bad idea?
http://drupal.org/project/nodecomment
Thanks for reading.
#1
Nodecomment is not compatable with AF because it uses its own forum module. We are trying to get forum replies as nodes in D7 but this will not be backported.
Michelle
#2
The biggest advantage of nodes over comments is the path consistency. If you quote or reference to a reply/post and create a link to it (using the node id) the link won't break if the reply is moved to another topic by a moderator. Furthermore it would be possible to view a certain post on a separate page instead of loading the whole topic. Like in vBulletin: single post, post in thread. The URLs just contain the post ID so the links don't break when the post is moved to another thread/forum.
So with the usage of node comments topic replies are nodes instead of comments finally?
#3
Yes. Nodecomment stopped sucking unexpectedly well after I won't fix'd this.
Michelle
#4
Question I have is if you've got an established community with a decent size forum how is the conversion process over to nodecomment?
It would be nice but I'm hesitant on the conversion process.
Cheers
#5
My dev site has 7K comments and that took about 15 minutes but I realized afterwards that I had Userpoints running, which likely slowed it down a lot. If you temporarily turn off modules like that which act on comment delete / node save and then recalculate them afterwards, it's likely to be much faster. It uses a batch process so you don't have to start over if it times out as well, which is very nice.
If you need more specifics, you'll have better luck in the nodecomment queue. I'm just a user, not a maintainer on that one.
Michelle
#6
Thanks Michelle -
When AF v2 hit's around Beta 2 I'll more than likely make the leap
Cheers
#7
Hopefully that will be sometime in August. *crossing fingers*
Michelle
#8
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.
#9
Hi Michelle,
Is the AF 6.x-1.1 compatible with nodecomment or do we need to wait for 6.x-2.x release ?
#10
2.x only.
Michelle
#11
How can I help out as a non-programmer?
#12
You can test the latest 2.x dev snapshot. I was pulled away from working on it for a while but hope to get back to it soon. I want to do another alpha but want to make sure there's no bugs that aren't already in the issue queue first.
Thanks,
Michelle
#13
I will do that. Are there any general guidelines for testing?
#14
Install it on a dev site and try to use it. If something doesn't work right, check the issue queue to see if it's one of the known issues. If not, file a new one.
Thanks,
Michelle