What is the most powerful FREE forum Drupal can integrate with?
Hi all,
for the longest time I was interested in Joomla's seamless integration with the Agora plug-in, a fast developed add-on forum module that just "plugs in" with one click. It's for Joomla only, and the developer, Hazzaa, rocks in terms of customer support and speed of development. This is his passion, his full time gig.
So, I'm wondering if Drupal has a specific forum just for Drupal?
Also, I have subscribed to the Joomla news, and gather this will tell me when Drupal 7 is out?
(I've decided on SMF for our forum right now, and may use that for the next year or so as I watch the CMS wars unfold around us. Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, bbpress, SMF, phpbb3 and Agora all offer interesting possibilities....)
Also, what forum software is this? No smilies, HTML tags instead of WYSIWYG buttons.... I don't mean to be rude, but it's not very user friendly?
There is the drupal way..
Smileys: http://drupal.org/project/smileys
Advanced forum: http://drupal.org/project/advanced_forum
And there is quite a few WYSIWYG editors for drupal - http://drupal.org/search/node/type%3Aproject_project+WYSIWYG
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This forum here is the one
This forum here is the one included in the Drupal package. It can be extended in many ways, as thmo said, but it is intentionally kept simple by design in drupal.org. Especially see the "contributed modules" link in the advanced_forum project page.
If you don't care much for integrating the forum content with the other content of the site, and you only want a familiar-looking forum style with the users integrated with Drupal, then check http://drupal.org/project/smfforum (for SMF) and http://drupal.org/project/phpbbforum (for phpBB).
I am using the phpBB-Drupal
I am using the phpBB-Drupal 5 bridge right now. It's OK, but if I were to start my site from scratch I'd try to use Drupal's built-in Forum with the Advanced Forum module, plus others.
There are issues with the bridge 'dropping' log-ins - user is logged into main Drupal area, but the Forum doesn't think so - this has even kept me from getting into the phpBB admin area. There are ways to 'fix' this within a session, but I've had issues with folks not getting access at all.
Also, you need to keep up with the phpBB updates which really have not been tested with the bridge module.
The only real reason I use the bridge is because my users were so used to the phpBB-based forum from my older, non-Drupal site.
Eric
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