Community Discussion on Forum Development Best Practices
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Sign In One of the Drupal features that seems to be seriously lacking IMO is a robust, feature rich Forum module.
The purpose of this discussion is to find out from fellow Drupalers how they have worked around this limitation and successfully developed robust Forums for their own sites.
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my notes with lots of links
11-12 Forum Discussion
What can acheive PHPBB-like functionality???
These might all talk in some way:
OG and Advanced leverage the basic Forum module, and access adds more options. I think I saw some indication that advanced can be applied to OG Forums as well (but perhaps with a tiny bit of hacking).
forums add on for organinc groups (permissions etc)
http://drupal.org/project/og_forum
forum theming and other features added
http://drupal.org/project/advanced_forum
extra fourms permissions stuff
http://drupal.org/project/forum_access
other stuff:
http://drupal.org/project/privatemsg
Flag and 5-star work with “comments” (most drupal forums leverage comments)
promoting stuff by activity http://drupal.org/project/radioactivity
Forums improvemets discussion group
http://groups.drupal.org/forum-improvements
List of phpbb like features and where to find them
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=r2eQ3XwGh1X7jZEa9wMNatg&output=html
upload files to comments
http://drupal.org/project/comment_upload
node comment (makes comments a node)
http://drupal.org/project/nodecomment
workfows, rules, trigers & actions can add dynamic functionality
wrap a set of stuff into an installable module? “save cck, imagecache, metadata, config into a module”
http://drupal.org/project/features
Discussion Notes
Moderation:
Forum Access
Theming:
Advanced Forums
Voting:
5 Star
Flag
Radioactive
General:
Comment Upload
Comment Notify
Author Pane
Subscriptions – Follow certain topics via email
Additional:
Rules – setting up triggers/actions and rules for realtime tasks
(Rules = WorkflowNG in Drupal 5)
Features – Saves CCK, image cache, views etc metadata/config into a module
Drupal Groups:
Forum Group – http://groups.drupal.org/forum-improvements
Forum Group Master Feature List – http://groups.drupal.org/node/23178 – http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=r2eQ3XwGh1X7jZEa9wMNatg&gid=0
Sites:
Chris – http://downfallguild.org
Action:
Add entry to Drupal cookbook regarding what modules and techniques