Hi all,
I have a Drupal 6.13 + SMF forum (version 6.x-1.21 of smfforum module) installation that works like a charm. It works so good that I am thinking of going futher in this direction. I would like to use SMF forum post instead of Drupal comments, at least in some specific parts.
Let me explain better. My website is forum-centered, that is my users have always used the forum to post specific content they want to advertise. So the post their content, and all the other users do their comments by replying the initial post.
I do not like this behaviour, because the advertised content will be most suitable as Drupal content, since it is usually news. I do not want to duplicate the content as SMF forum post and Drupal node, because is a waste of time, so I am thinking of doing something automatic. I would like to have the following behaviour:
1- the user that wants to insert a news is forced to go through Drupal (I can change SMF forum permission in order to avoid to create new topics, for example)
2- when inserting a node of a particulr type, also a new forum topic is created with same title and body of the article.
When accessing that topic via SMF, all user can reply to it as usual.
When accessing the node via Drupal, the page should show at the bottom all the replies of the topic currently present in SMF and a link like "Reply to" or "Discuss this" that should link to the correct SMF-integrated-into-drupal page.
What do you think of such feature? I have not find any drupal module capable of doing this till now. Could you please tell me if there is already one solution for this feature?
Anyway, I am a developer and I am already trying to code this creating a new drupal module. I think it will not be so difficult, but I am not sure that this is ok for what concerns SMF copyrights. Could you tell me more info about this?
Thanks!
Comments
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You might want to see if there's any useful code in http://drupal.org/project/discussthis . That's for D5 and geared towards Drupal forums so maybe not of any use, but I thought I'd throw it out there just in case.
I have no idea about SMF licensing... I use Drupal's forums, which are as GPL as the rest of it. :)
Michelle
Thank you Michelle, it seems
Thank you Michelle, it seems to me that the link you gave is very useful. I will study it. There is no similar module for Drupal 6, right?
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None that I'm aware of. I actually want to do something similar, but using Drupal's forums, so I may end up porting it myself at some point.
Michelle
So I am doing my development
So I am doing my development for creating this module, because it seems that there is no such option for SMF. Is anyone interested in giving suggestion about the features it may have?