By Z2222 on

Is there a way to create multiple forums on one site?

Example:

Three containers: Japan, Korea, China. If I give each of those containers a sub-container, it doesn't look so good. I would prefer three different forums on three different pages.

Does anyone know if there is a relatively easy way to do this?

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ryivhnn’s picture

ryivhnn commented

Can't immediately think of a way to get three different forums on the one site, but if you can work out how to get multiple sites under a single code base (which I haven't figured out yet but then again haven't really tried to) you could have different subsites for Japan, Korea and China each with their own forums.

I have no idea which one would be easier to set up, but there's something to think about :)

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Z2222’s picture

Z2222 commented

Thanks for the idea. I would like to keep everything under one site though.

ryivhnn’s picture

ryivhnn commented

If you get creative with Taxonomy you might be able to use Views to filter out different topics.

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chubako’s picture

chubako commented

I've found this site on how to make multiple sites with one database, with table prefixing. Didn't try it, but seems interesting:
http://creativebits.org/2_drupal_installations_1_mysql_db
Good luck !

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Z2222 commented

I found a solution -- you can link to containers.

One main container called "Japan", one called "Korea" and one called "China". It looks like three different forums to the user.

wheatbix’s picture

wheatbix commented

I think J. Cohen wants forums in two different sub-domains, ie a forum in /forum and one in /anotherforum
Personally I would love to have a way of doing this in order to keep different groups in my communities seperate, ie users and developers.

I was thinking that taking the forum module code and doing a find and replace for all references to 'forum' with 'newforum' or something along those lines.

Does anyone know if there is any interactions which would be a problem doing this?

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mcfilms commented

This may be way overkill for what you are looking for, but have you considered Organic Groups. I know there is a module that allows forums for each group.

http://drupal.org/project/og_forum

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