[support] Forum module?

William Smith william.darren at gmail.com
Sun Jan 24 22:27:11 UTC 2010


Most likely your theme is phptemplate based (almost all are), but you can
verify by going to your theme directory and checking the .info file
contained in that directory.  There should be a line that says "engine =
phptemplate"

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Daniel Carrera <
daniel.carrera at theingots.org> wrote:

>
> 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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