Posted by callison on September 3, 2009 at 8:23am
I'm working on a project where I need to have a separate page (not part of the base drupal installation) to handle the forum. Does anyone know an easy way to do this? It's easy to get the forum displayed offsite, butt then it gets complicated trying to figure out how to create new forum topics and posts and all that kind of stuff. Any ideas or thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Chris
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You could use vBulletin and
You could use vBulletin and http://drupal.org/project/drupalvb. It shares usernames and passwords between the two. It comes with three modules that enable you to show the latest posts on the forum in a block on your Drupal site. Cool huh? Let me know how it goes and good luck!
Yeah, I see what you're saying but
Yeah, I see what you're saying but it's not exactly what I need (BTW it is cool). I'm needing to have a completely separate forum basically that pulls the data from the Drupal forum. I was hoping there would be a relatively simple API or something to accomplish this. I've poked around the forum.module and other forum files and pretty easily figured out how to display the forums and topics, etc. but all the links point back to the Drupal site because it uses theme() to print it out. Do you know if there's a way to make it stay on the external page while still using the already written (and high-quality) forum code? I would hate to re-invent the wheel on this. Thanks.
Chris
Does this mean that you want
Does this mean that you want two forums using the same database? I've been watching pod casts from this website http://mustardseedmedia.com/ . Somebody put it in an answer to a different forum post. I don't know exactly what your doing but after seeing your website I think that you have a lot of things in common with these guys.
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Do you want the forum to be on a seperate (sub)domain? You could set up a different site that just has the forum either totally seperate or using multisite. If you want it on the same domain but just look like it's seperate, you can use a different theme for the forum. How do you want the forum connected to the main site?
Michelle
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Yeah, I'm thinking that using
Yeah, I'm thinking that using a new theme is the best way to go. That way, all the original forum functions work correctly without custom coding. Thanks for the input guys.