There's some ideas here: <a href="http://drupal.org/node/227121">http://drupal.org/node/227121</a><br><br>Michelle<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:32 AM, KOBA | Hans Rossel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hans.rossel@koba.be">hans.rossel@koba.be</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Have a look at some of the modules that author pane supports like<br>
userpoints and user titles. They very nicely integrate.<br>
<br>
Hans<br>
<br>
2010/1/25, Daniel Carrera <<a href="mailto:daniel.carrera@theingots.org">daniel.carrera@theingots.org</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> I just began using it and it's a huge improvement over the default<br>
> Drupal modules. Now I'm looking at what other modules I can install to<br>
> improve forums further.<br>
><br>
> Thanks Michelle!<br>
><br>
> KOBA | Hans Rossel wrote:<br>
>> I agree Advanced Forum in Drupal 6 is really no more than enabling the<br>
>> module (and the required author pane module), just have a look at the<br>
>> settings after installation and thats it. And its a great and easy way<br>
>> to enhance the basic Drupal forum a lot. I use it for all forums,<br>
>> thanks Michelle!<br>
>><br>
>> Hans<br>
>><br>
>> 2010/1/25, Michelle Cox <<a href="mailto:shellmultimedia@gmail.com">shellmultimedia@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
>>> That warning is mostly from 5.x where you had to paste in code due to the<br>
>>> limitations of the theme system. I should probably take that off now that<br>
>>> 5.x isn't supported anymore. It's really not that complex to set up. If<br>
>>> you<br>
>>> want the full forum experience, you need a bunch of helper modules but AF<br>
>>> itself is pretty simple.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Michelle<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Daniel Carrera <<br>
>>> <a href="mailto:daniel.carrera@theingots.org">daniel.carrera@theingots.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> Thanks!<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> William Smith wrote:<br>
>>>>> Most likely your theme is phptemplate based (almost all are), but you<br>
>>>>> can verify by going to your theme directory and checking the .info file<br>
>>>>> contained in that directory. There should be a line that says "engine<br>
>>>>> =<br>
>>>>> phptemplate"<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Daniel Carrera<br>
>>>>> <<a href="mailto:daniel.carrera@theingots.org">daniel.carrera@theingots.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:daniel.carrera@theingots.org">daniel.carrera@theingots.org</a>>><br>
>>>> wrote:<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> To use this module I need to use a theme that is based on<br>
>>>> phptemplate.<br>
>>>>> How do I know if my theme is based on phptemplate? I use Pixture<br>
>>>>> reloaded. I hope I don't have to change it...<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> Daniel.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> Michelle Cox wrote:<br>
>>>>> > <a href="http://drupal.org/project/advanced_forum" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/project/advanced_forum</a><br>
>>>>> ><br>
>>>>> > Michelle<br>
>>>>> ><br>
>>>>> > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Daniel Carrera<br>
>>>>> > <<a href="mailto:daniel.carrera@theingots.org">daniel.carrera@theingots.org</a><br>
>>>>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:daniel.carrera@theingots.org">daniel.carrera@theingots.org</a>><br>
>>>>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:daniel.carrera@theingots.org">daniel.carrera@theingots.org</a><br>
>>>>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:daniel.carrera@theingots.org">daniel.carrera@theingots.org</a>>>> wrote:<br>
>>>>> ><br>
>>>>> > Hello,<br>
>>>>> ><br>
>>>>> > Can anyone recommend a *good* forum module, that works well,<br>
>>>>> actually<br>
>>>>> > *looks* like a standard web forum, and doesn't have external<br>
>>>>> > dependencies?<br>
>>>>> ><br>
>>>>> > I have one website that uses the standard Drupal forum<br>
>>>>> module. It sort<br>
>>>>> > of works, but very poorly. It's really just taking the<br>
>>>> "comments"<br>
>>>>> > feature and pretending that it's a forum, and it doesn't<br>
>>>>> work<br>
>>>>> very well.<br>
>>>>> > It doesn't look like a forum at all.<br>
>>>>> ><br>
>>>>> > I have another website that uses Simple Machines Forum.<br>
>>>>> These<br>
>>>>> modules do<br>
>>>>> > look great, but SMF is a separate dependency and the<br>
>>>>> integration with<br>
>>>>> > Drupal is imperfect. You often get a lot of the SMF admin<br>
>>>>> controls<br>
>>>>> > poping out. Some times you have to login again to SMF, and<br>
>>>>> so<br>
>>>>> on. I have<br>
>>>>> > to hide the smf URL to avoid the risk of someone creating an<br>
>>>>> account at<br>
>>>>> > SMF directly without a corresponding Drupal account. So this<br>
>>>>> solution is<br>
>>>>> > not great either.<br>
>>>>> ><br>
>>>>> > Is anyone aware of a better alternative? Something that<br>
>>>>> really works<br>
>>>>> > inside Drupal but actually looks like a standard web forum?<br>
>>>>> ><br>
>>>>> > Thanks for the help.<br>
>>>>> ><br>
>>>>> > Cheers,<br>
>>>>> > Daniel.<br>
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