Posted by webchick on May 25, 2009 at 10:44pm
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| Project: | DruBB |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
| Issue tags: | DruBB topic listing, DruBB topic view, DruBB topic/reply post form |
Issue Summary
Per the mocks at #472590: Meta-issue: Make posting form more like phpBB's, one of the features of phpBB is the ability to associate a topic/reply with an icon. This icon gets displayed in the following ways:
Comments
#1
Taxonomy Image plus some theming should be able to do this feature. This seems like something that'll be much easier to implement if comments are nodes.
I'm pretty -1 to implementing the overlay thing though, since it'll be a lot of work for little gain. An extra column in the forum listing is fine IMO since that's how "classic" phpBB used to work.
#2
I was playing with components for this, but let's do tags instead.
#3
I was looking at using taxonomy image for making an image per forum. An image per topic is a little different and usually users get to choose that option. neclimdul has a "forum mood" module that may be of use here, but I don't know what state it's in.
Michelle
#4
#472590: Meta-issue: Make posting form more like phpBB's makes it clear that users are getting to choose an icon for each post and there is no way you could stretch taxonomy image to do that I don't think. It might be challenging even to let them select from a list of icons to select a single, unchanging, icon for a topic, although that would be more doable.
I scanned through all the forum modules I could find to see if I could find any that might work and came up with nothing. I couldn't find anything by neclimdul either.
I wonder if there is any way to tweak the Flag module into doing something for us here? That's the closest thing I can think of to what we are trying to do.
#5
Fixing a tag.
Yeah, I was thinking that this is just a taxonomy widget with some theming and have the view show the taxonomy_image.image field. But maybe it'd be better to just make a "Topic icon" module that does *only* this rather than trying to shoe-horn taxonomy into it.
#6
OK, I investigated taxonomy image and flag a bit to get some ideas which might work better and I think taxonomy image may be the closest fit. I think we would create another, different vocabulary for 'Topic icons' and assoc an image with each, then form alter the display so it is a box of the available images instead of a drop down select list on the node.
We need a group of icons to use for this and a list of names to give them. The admin of a site could add additional ones.
I'm not going to do anything with this now, I just wanted to get far enough to identify the likely solution.
#7
Note that http://drupal.org/node/13911#comment-1579796 provides a lot of links to icon libraries.