[support] Forum module?

[KOBA | Hans Rossel]

Have a look at some of the modules that author pane supports like
userpoints and user titles. They very nicely integrate.

Hans

2010/1/25, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at theingots.org>:
> 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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