[support] Forum module?

[Daniel Carrera]

Thanks!

William Smith wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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>
>     <mailto: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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