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By jsp_1983 on
Hi guys,
I've spent the past week looking at platforms to use to create a small social network site with a forum attached to it. In the end, I opted for Dolphin, but it's just too much of a nightmare for me to try to install, let alone use and configure, having no PHP or server admin experience.
So I've decided to ditch Dolphin and look again. I see that Drupal has the Organic Groups module for social networking and groups and it looks to fit some of my requirements. I'd like to use a different forum package, though, so I'm just wondering, is it possible to integrate Drupal, OG and a third party forum, like IPB, PHPBB or VBB with each other, so forum posts can be displayed on the site front page, for example, and users don't have to have separate accounts?
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Do you want to add existing
Do you want to add existing forum to your new Drupal website or you just want a new forum in website. If later is the case then Forum comes with Core drupal. You don't have to install any other things. When you were posting your question you were using Drupal Default forum. To dress up your forum you can have CSS guy work for you or look for some modules related to it.
Chetan
I would recommend that you
I would recommend that you use the inbuilt drupal forum for the best integration & compatibility, esp in upgrading. Take a look at Drupal 6: Ultimate Community Site Guide ebook for a great guide on different modules to implement
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Personally, I don't believe 3rd party integration is worth the aggravation and hassles that come with it. Forum-centric sites are so 90's-- true social networking has very little to do with forums. Moreover, even with an integrated sign on and some content sharing, nothing screams "i'm an amateur and i don't know what I'm doing" louder than clicking on a forum link and being greeted with a jarringly unintegrated forum (and most sites don't go to the enormous effort involved to truly theme the applications seamlessly). Drupal forums + the advanced_forum module should be sufficient for 99% of sites. If it's good enough for the webmaster forums, a forum centric site, it should be good enough for a social community.
I am so disenchanted with
I am so disenchanted with both the front and back end and have been paying people for over 2 months to get it the way I want it to no avail.
I started over the weekend to look at Joomla and JomSocial and went looking for some programming help and one has suggested I look at Drupal. I have a very short deadline as I launch a major event next Monday and don't want to use my site at www.susaneking.com as it doesn't WORK!
I'd be interested in any words of wisdom between the three, Dolphin, Joomla and Drupal.
The social networking components and blogs are the most important thing to me. It will be user driven content, primarily.
Susan
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Drupal has a learning curve-- if you're on a tight deadline you're likely to become frustrated if it doesn't work exactly as you want out of the box. Joomla is easier to get up and running quickly, but far more difficult to tweak to your liking.
No matter what you choose, I find it hard to believe you can get a social networking blog site up and running by next monday unless you can be satisfied by installing something and accepting it's functionality out of the box (which it sounds like you're not open to).
cant get through the learning curve
hi i am a newbie to drupal.
can you help me as to how to glide past this learning phase as i have been facing quite a lot of problems with it.
i am using drupal 6.10 and also i want to build a website where i cn register multiple groups one a student and the other a teacher.
the student will send the answers to his assignment back to the teacher as a doc file attached along with some text fields that appears as a new message to the teacher everytime he logs in. the teacher can then post back his reply to the student.