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I have a very rough plan at the moment and just looking at my options. Pretty much what I want to do is create an aesthetically pleasing site where people can upload say a story they wrote and other people can comment and rate the story for them. I would think this is possible with a CMS such as Drupal by using different permission levels for users. Would be great just to get some clarification. Another thing I need to consider is the implementation of a forum system. For instance when people sign in on the drupal site, there would be no need to sign in again on the forum. I would like to keep the whole site opensource as I strongly respect and admire the work that goes into these projects. PHPBB preferred followed by SMF.
Thankyou in advance.
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Drupal is perfect for what
Drupal is perfect for what you want to do, both for the content commenting/rating and for the forum. There are dozens of themes available in the download section of this site that you will like as well.
Fantastic! Thank you for your
Fantastic!
Thank you for your reply. Gonna have a look through the themes in the download section now. They are all allowed to be edited?
Yes, you can customize them
Yes, you can customize them any way you wish.
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Drupal comes with a forum so you can have the entire thing integrated and no need to bridge to other forum software.
Michelle
Ah a built in forum. Even
Ah a built in forum. Even better. I am just about to install drupal on a localhost server now for testing and mucking around with. Another question that popped into my head. Is there a way to have multiple installations of drupal on the same server but in different sub domains, and have them all have the same userbase. IE bridging the drupal installs.
My reason for wanting this, is that I will want to have different sections of the site, that have completely different designs, including titles, links, menus ect. Perhaps that could be achieved with a module?
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investigate further using google, drupal multisite installs and read the settings.php file for information on how to share tables.
one presentation worth stepping through for this = http://www.slideshare.net/jvandyk/multisite-van-dyk-walkah-presentation
one may also want to investigate the subdomain.module or domain.module
Had a quick look through that
Had a quick look through that presentation. Was very interesting.
Like you suggested I will investigate further through google and decide the best way for me to do things.
Thankyou for the help.
This
Might help http://drupal.org/project/subsites
Another module
Another one to add to the others mentioned: http://drupal.org/project/sso
Michelle
Thanks
Thankyou to everybody, you've all been a great help. I am now getting my local install of Drupal up and running, then will look more into the links and advice given to me here.
OK. After installing drupal
OK. After installing drupal and having a look at the included forum, I still feel I need to use a seperate bb software. I would much prefer to use PHPBB version 3.06 (3.05 if there is no bridge support for 3.06) as I have a little experience with it.
I have been thinking about how I am going to achieve my goal, and so far this method sounds the best to me. I would have the home site as the "Controller" and install seperate installs of drupal on subdomains as clients and use the Single Sign On module.
Then I would need to bridge PHPBB to Drupal. Would I be correct in thinking that bridging phpbb to the "controller" install of drupal would inturn sync to all other drupal installs on the server?
Also does any body here know a good phpbb bridge for drupal version 6.15 (again, I can use a different version if needed).
My only other question would be is, apart from the extra storage space needed for the drupal installations, will they require more system resources then a same size site on a singe drupal installation?
I am sorry to ask all these questions, and I am extremely grateful for all of your help.
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There's a bridge module to phpbb. I don't recommend using bridges as Drupal can do nearly everything phpbb can do and then your content will be truly integrated. But it's there if you really want to hassle with a bridge just to tack a forum onto your site.
Out of curiosity, what feature are you needing that you can't do in Drupal?
Michelle
The main features I would
The main features I would have missed from phpbb is the theming and the extensive amount of mods available for it. I have actually been looking at "Advanced Forum" for drupal...actually looks like a very viable option for me.
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A common misconception is that drupal has no modules for it's forum. While there are few modules, specifically for the forum. There are ineed modules that extend forum functionality. They aren't labeld specifically for forums, because they extend all parts of drupal not just the forums.
An example: attaching files. When one adds a module to add files to a drupal forum, that module is also used to attach files to any other content type in drupal or created with drupal. This holds true with most every module in drupal. Not only does it extend one piece of drupal but all that is drupal.
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You can do a lot with Drupal modules. http://couleeregiononline.com/forum is all Drupal. I'm just a hobbyist and theming isn't my strong suit so it may not be the best example, but I like it. :)
Michelle
The forum of that site is
The forum of that site is spectacular. I frequent many forums on the internet and 90% of the time it feels like you are visiting a different site when you go from the content pages to the forum. On your site everything looks like one..truly intergrated. Thankyou for sharing that.
And yes looking through the modules now I see that they all extent the functionality of the drupal site as a whole. I must say I have tried Joomla and Wordpress (dont get sucked in...it may be "able" to function as a CMS but its still a blogging platform at heart) and drupal has to be the most advanced of them all. It really is fantastic.
I cant wait to start drowning in php code to see what I can do with it.
Thankyou to everybody :)
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Usually because you are -- that's what 'integration' with bridges looks like, lol. imo drupal core forum with advanced_forum and some modules from http://drupal.org/node/227121 is all that's necessary 99.9% of the time.
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The forum landing page is pretty heavily changed with Panels & Quicktabs but the rest of it is fairly stock AF 2.x with mostly color changes and some new graphics.
It does take a bit more work initially to set up a Drupal forum because you need so many smaller modules rather than one monolithic super forum module, but I think the end results are well worth it. Here's another example I happen to have open: http://drupal.org/node/600018#comment-2577656
Michelle