Hello,
I am looking for an alternate forum module. I was planning to use UIE Forum but it doesn't seem to be available anymore.
What's wrong with the default forums? Well, the default forum uses the comment module to create threads. But I don't want to allow all users to post comments on all pages. I have two user roles: X and Y. I want X and Y both to post to the forum but only X can post comments on blogs.
Therefore, I'm looking for a forum module that doesn't use the comments module to do its thing.
Any suggestions? I can't find anything on the Modules page:
1) UIE Forum is not available. 2) Flexiforum and Nodeforum are unstable with no work on a Drupal 6 version. 3) Several modules integrate Drupal forums with some other forum program, but that's not what I'm looking for (I don't think).
I don't know whether OG Forum uses comments or not.
Daniel.
maybe using taxonomy_access you can allow certain roles to write comments just on forums.
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Daniel Carrera daniel.carrera@zmsl.com wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for an alternate forum module. I was planning to use UIE Forum but it doesn't seem to be available anymore.
What's wrong with the default forums? Well, the default forum uses the comment module to create threads. But I don't want to allow all users to post comments on all pages. I have two user roles: X and Y. I want X and Y both to post to the forum but only X can post comments on blogs.
Therefore, I'm looking for a forum module that doesn't use the comments module to do its thing.
Any suggestions? I can't find anything on the Modules page:
- UIE Forum is not available.
- Flexiforum and Nodeforum are unstable with no work on a Drupal 6 version.
- Several modules integrate Drupal forums with some other forum
program, but that's not what I'm looking for (I don't think).
I don't know whether OG Forum uses comments or not.
Daniel.
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Lluís wrote:
maybe using taxonomy_access you can allow certain roles to write comments just on forums.
I can't find any way to do that. I just took another look in case I'm missing something, but it looks to me that taxonomy_access only lets me control whether people can post forum *topics*. So you can start a new topic, but you can't reply to it.
I am not sure that taxonomy access can do anything at all with comments. You know when you create a new vocabulary (category), you have to enter what type of pages the vocabulary applies to. The options are: Forum topic, Blog entry, Page, Story. That's it. There is no option that says "comment", much less "comment inside a forum".
:-(
I don't understand why blog comments have to be attached to forum replies. It seems like such strange and inconvenient choice. There has to be a way to have different permissions for blog comments and for forum replies.
Daniel.
The Forum Access module might be more helpful, but perhaps the opposite effect. http://drupal.org/project/forum_access
If you really want the UIE Forum module, it appears to still be available for download here: http://drupalmodules.com/module/uie-forum (But it was likely pulled for a reason, so proceed with caution.)
There are also a number of forum integration modules including phpBB, SMF, FUD, and others so you can probably find something that suits your needs.
Brian
-----Original Message----- From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Carrera Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:18 AM To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] Forum Modules?
Lluís wrote:
maybe using taxonomy_access you can allow certain roles to write comments just on forums.
I can't find any way to do that. I just took another look in case I'm missing something, but it looks to me that taxonomy_access only lets me control whether people can post forum *topics*. So you can start a new topic, but you can't reply to it.
I am not sure that taxonomy access can do anything at all with comments. You know when you create a new vocabulary (category), you have to enter what type of pages the vocabulary applies to. The options are: Forum topic, Blog entry, Page, Story. That's it. There is no option that says "comment", much less "comment inside a forum".
:-(
I don't understand why blog comments have to be attached to forum replies. It seems like such strange and inconvenient choice. There has to be a way to have different permissions for blog comments and for forum replies.
Daniel.
Brian Choc wrote:
The Forum Access module might be more helpful, but perhaps the opposite effect. http://drupal.org/project/forum_access
Yeah. Opposite effect. :(
If you really want the UIE Forum module, it appears to still be available for download here: http://drupalmodules.com/module/uie-forum (But it was likely pulled for a reason, so proceed with caution.)
I wish I knew why it was pulled out. I went to IRC but the bot says that "zoro" hasn't been around for 10 weeks, so I don't have much hope that I'll see him in the next couple of days. Is there an email address at which I might reach him?
There are also a number of forum integration modules including phpBB, SMF, FUD, and others so you can probably find something that suits your needs.
I assumed that those simply converted the 3rd party forum into a Drupal forum, but taking a closer look, I'm not sure that that's what they do. I'll experiment with them. Thanks.
Daniel.
Daniel Carrera wrote:
There are also a number of forum integration modules including phpBB, SMF, FUD, and others so you can probably find something that suits your needs.
I assumed that those simply converted the 3rd party forum into a Drupal forum, but taking a closer look, I'm not sure that that's what they do. I'll experiment with them. Thanks.
Ah, SMF looks like the right choice. It is the only forum for which there are modules for both Drupal 5 and 6. This is important because I want my upgrade to Drupal 6 to be smooth. I'll go try it now.
Thanks for the help.
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