Forum, Blog and GLOBALS.php

Posted by erektinker on August 31, 2009 at 8:46pm

So I have my basic drupal site up and running. I am a total and complete noob but I am proud of myself for getting it properly configured and now I'm stuck on a couple of basic things.

1) How do I make the blogroll a separate page so that not every user updates the main page? I want only the administrator to update the main page.

2) How do I set it up so that when someone logs in they have links to the forum and blog pages automatically in the list on the sidebar?

3) I installed FUDforum but it's asking for GLOBALS.php and I can't find that. I tried creating a GLOBALS.php file that was empty but that didn't work, so how do I locate this file or create it?

Thanks. I bet these are definitely easy noob questions but they are confusing me.

Thanks,
Erek

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Ok a new problem has arisen.

Posted by erektinker on August 31, 2009 at 8:52pm

Ok a new problem has arisen. It seems that the improperly configured fudforum has made it so that I cannot login.

Ok so deleting the fudforum module fixed that problem, and I figured out how to do the navigation menus so I don't need that question answered anymore. Glad I figured it out because I felt like it was a stupid question and it was! ;)

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Posted by silverwing on August 31, 2009 at 8:52pm

check the fudforum for that issue http://fudforum.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=160022&

for the blogs, go to /admin/content/node-type/ click on edit of the node, on the bottom of the page should be workflow - uncheck promote to front.

You can also use views to help with the display of your blogposts.

~silverwing

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Thanks Silverwing. I confess

Posted by erektinker on August 31, 2009 at 11:19pm

Thanks Silverwing. I confess that the FUDforum stuff is a little beyond my pay-grade. I'm going to have a go at it though and see what I can learn in the doing of it. As for the blogs well that seems like exactly what I was looking for. If I can create a blogroll so that all of the people's blogs show up on one /blog/ page that'd be cool.

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Posted by Michelle on September 1, 2009 at 2:31pm

If you're using the core blog module, all the blog posts will show up at /blog automatically. Blogs as a distinct entity don't exist in the core blog module, so you can't list the actual blogs like that, just the blog posts. You can replace blog module with cck & views but that may be more complex than you want to get into.

As for the forum, why not just use Drupal's forum? Then you don't have to try and get some other software working with Drupal.

Michelle

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Thanks again for your help.

Posted by erektinker on September 1, 2009 at 3:39pm

Thanks again for your help. Other than the fudforum stuff I got your suggestions working. Which leads me to a new question. How can I set it up so that what is posted to the front page is public but everything else is private? I took off anonymous view of content and that removed the ability of anon to see the front page.

Michelle, Drupal's forum is

Posted by erektinker on September 1, 2009 at 3:32pm

Michelle,

Drupal's forum is very very limited. I want something more like PHPBB. I might not actually need it for this site but I definitely want a real forum with robust functionality rather than something so limited as the Drupal software.

Sigh

Posted by Michelle on September 1, 2009 at 3:53pm

Forums in Drupal are not "very very limited". People just need to get their heads around the fact that you dont' build a site with just core. You can have a full featured forum in Drupal. You just need to use contributed modules for it.

The only area that Drupal's forums still struggle is moderation and that will be taken care of later this fall with a new module that's coming.

Michelle

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Well that's why I was

Posted by erektinker on September 1, 2009 at 3:59pm

Well that's why I was installing FUDforum, which is a module. Otherwise I don't know what you're talking about.

That's not a Drupal module

Posted by Michelle on September 1, 2009 at 4:06pm

I went and searched out FUDforum and that's definitely not a Drupal module. There may be a Drupal module that bridges to it, but FUDforum itself is not Drupal.

I was talking about actual Drupal modules like these: http://drupal.org/node/227121

Michelle

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I bookmarked that page. I am

Posted by erektinker on September 1, 2009 at 8:18pm

I bookmarked that page. I am looking into it. Thanks a lot. Remember I am a Drupal noob, like nearly total so any misconceptions I have about drupal is pure noob ignorance.

I definitely knew already though that you can't build a robust site from only the drupal core. Though the drupal core handles everything I need to get started.

Ok I got author_pane and advanced-forum working, they're awesome so far, thanks a lot. I'm looking into advanced profile next.

Sorry

Posted by Michelle on September 1, 2009 at 9:23pm

I was snippier there than I need to be. Been fighting this "Drupal's forum sucks so I'm going to bolt on this 3rd party app instead" battle for far too long. Makes me a little trigger happy.

I wouldn't look at APK right now unless you want to cry. It's a poor neglected module that I desperately need to give some love to. Soon, I hope.

Michelle

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Yeah, I installed it and it

Posted by erektinker on September 1, 2009 at 9:37pm

Yeah, I installed it and it broke my site, lol. ;) I'm back to where I was though. Thanks for all the help. I'm impressed by your dedication to this stuff. I appreciate your input on everything.