By Funkyp on

Hi everyone,
I have found out that Symantec Connect (https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/security)
is based on Drupal,
I was wondering if anyone knows how they did that, meaning what forum is running on that Drupal and what modules are installed..
I really want to put together a forum system that looks like that and functions like that.

If anyone can contribute some knowledge that would be great.
Thanks.

Naor

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WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

Seems to be a very nicely styled and customized core forum-- if you browse the source of any thread it's nothing but nodes and comments while the listings are views.

pumpkinkid’s picture

pumpkinkid commented

How do you know that it's running drupal?

I used to work for Symantec, and it looks very similar to an internal forum that they used which was a proprietary software they developed at some time...

If it is Drupal, it could be a view bringing in that forum in and themed accordingly.

PK

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

I figured it was drupal because when you click through to the actual thread, it's typical drupal node and comment markup-- but you're right there's nothing preventing them from pulling in the data from somewhere else and formatting it that way (though I can imagine why anyone would go through the trouble).

I don't think that really matters regarding the op's original question though-- yes, you can do this kind of forum in drupal (regardless of where the content comes from).

Funkyp’s picture

Funkyp commented

It is Drupal for sure:
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/community-platform
the admin says so ;)

pumpkinkid’s picture

pumpkinkid commented

Heh, silly me, yes you did say "forum"... I mistakenly did not look at the actual forum piece.

Doesn't seem too hard to accomplish, as WorldFallz said, just a very well dressed core forums.

You can use something like "firebug" to find out what css styles have been applied.

As far as the user pictures, it seems to be part of the profiles module in core... probably had the image resized using a module on upload probably "imagecache" which can upload the original image and create a thumbnail version as well.

PK

jeffrey.dalton’s picture

jeffrey.dalton commented

Just a note on this thread to say a case study on this project is now available here:
http://drupal.org/node/1061630

Regards,
Jeffrey

Jeffrey Dalton
Creative Director & Founding Partner
BKJ Digital
https://bkjdigital.com