[support] Forum module?

[Daniel Carrera]

To use this module I need to use a theme that is based on phptemplate. 
How do I know if my theme is based on phptemplate? I use Pixture 
reloaded. I hope I don't have to change it...

Daniel.

Michelle Cox wrote:
> http://drupal.org/project/advanced_forum
> 
> Michelle
> 
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Daniel Carrera 
> <daniel.carrera at theingots.org <mailto:daniel.carrera at theingots.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>     Can anyone recommend a *good* forum module, that works well, actually
>     *looks* like a standard web forum, and doesn't have external
>     dependencies?
> 
>     I have one website that uses the standard Drupal forum module. It sort
>     of works, but very poorly. It's really just taking the "comments"
>     feature and pretending that it's a forum, and it doesn't work very well.
>     It doesn't look like a forum at all.
> 
>     I have another website that uses Simple Machines Forum. These modules do
>     look great, but SMF is a separate dependency and the integration with
>     Drupal is imperfect. You often get a lot of the SMF admin controls
>     poping out. Some times you have to login again to SMF, and so on. I have
>     to hide the smf URL to avoid the risk of someone creating an account at
>     SMF directly without a corresponding Drupal account. So this solution is
>     not great either.
> 
>     Is anyone aware of a better alternative? Something that really works
>     inside Drupal but actually looks like a standard web forum?
> 
>     Thanks for the help.
> 
>     Cheers,
>     Daniel.
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