[support] Forum module?

[Daniel Carrera]

I just began using it and it's a huge improvement over the default 
Drupal modules. Now I'm looking at what other modules I can install to 
improve forums further.

Thanks Michelle!

KOBA | Hans Rossel wrote:
> I agree Advanced Forum in Drupal 6 is really no more than enabling the
> module (and the required author pane module), just have a look at the
> settings after installation and thats it. And its a great and easy way
> to enhance the basic Drupal forum a lot. I use it for all forums,
> thanks Michelle!
> 
> Hans
> 
> 2010/1/25, Michelle Cox <shellmultimedia at gmail.com>:
>> That warning is mostly from 5.x where you had to paste in code due to the
>> limitations of the theme system. I should probably take that off now that
>> 5.x isn't supported anymore. It's really not that complex to set up. If you
>> want the full forum experience, you need a bunch of helper modules but AF
>> itself is pretty simple.
>>
>> Michelle
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Daniel Carrera <
>> daniel.carrera at theingots.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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