By darksniperx on
I have been wondering if there is a huge difference between drupal 6 and 7 forums.
I am the moment I am using Drupal 6 with phpBBforum Integration module for phpbb 3.0x. But it doesnt work perfectly and there is hickups here and there. So i was wondering if there was a signinficant change in drupal 7 forum system.
Thx in advance!
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No-- don't think there were many, if any, changes at all.
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I just installed drupal 7 rc1, and the forum looks pretty much the same!
I remember with advanced forum module there were issues with certain browsers!
Issues with certain browsers?
Issues with certain browsers? I never had any browser issues with AF when I tested it. What browsers had issues, have you tested recently? (it is actively developed).
Drupal's core forum can go pretty far (I've found) even without AF if you tweak the templates and install the various forum-centric modules (same ones you install for Advanced Forum). Here's some screenshots of a core Drupal forum I've worked on (project currently on hold):
http://www.davidnewkerk.com/files/img/neverside-forum.png
http://www.davidnewkerk.com/files/img/forum-topic-p1.png
http://www.davidnewkerk.com/files/img/forum-topic-p2.png
http://www.davidnewkerk.com/files/img/forum-topic-p2-toggle.png
http://www.davidnewkerk.com/files/img/forum-topic-edit.png
http://www.davidnewkerk.com/files/img/dashboard-hover.png
My only personal problem with the Drupal forum is the inefficient queries on the forum topic listing pages related to counting the nodes and comments within a given taxonomy term (which on a huge forum can be excruciatingly slow... haven't tested if this is improved any in D7), but personally I like how it works overall much better than any other forum system.
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Sure, you tweak a few templates here, smooth over some module integration there, customize a bit of this and a bit of that, and before you know it you're writing a forum module. ;)
Michelle
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The browser that gave issues was opera browser. When I had the forum running at the time, I had alot of complaints that the forum didnt show up properly or the links did not work.
When I did try to advanced forum module it didnt looked no where near as good as the one you just showed.
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Considering I use Opera as my main browser, I know AF works with it. Most likely it was a theme conflict.
AF provides some default styles but it's up to you to make it look and work right with your site's theme just like any other module.
Michelle
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That could be an true, but fixing themes or cotacting the theme author is like searching a needle in hay stack!
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I suggest Firebug for Firefox. Let's you click on whatever isn't working right and see what CSS is being applied.
Michelle
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I did use firebug, and everything was working properly as you know, firefox slightly changes or removes the code it does not accept or like. The problem occured to some users of opera, even then I installed I could not reproduce it. It little late to talk about it at the moment but I do want to switch to drupal forum at some point. I will wait till drupal 7 final is out and see which supporting modules will out by then. But so far I like it.
David, I really like the way
David, I really like the way you tweaked the looks of your forums. Would you mind if we take a peek into your css/.tpl.php files? :)
Sure I'll post some sample
Sure I'll post some sample code as soon as I'm able.
tutorial
I hope you have time to write a drupal 7 tut for your forum theming
me too ;-)
me too ;-)
Really nice
+1 on the compliments. Clean and high functionality.
wow!
Hey David,
Did you ever get a chance to write up that guide? Your shots look just fantastic. Great work.