What is the best forum module to use for Drupal? The core is a bit lacking. I'm thining of investigating: http://drupal.org/project/advanced_forum
Anybody have any better suggestions?
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There's no great out-of-box solution or module for Drupal. What I suggest you do is install phpBB on your server then use this module to link it up with your Drupal site. phpBB is a great piece of software! A little blurb about the module:
In practice it takes things from the Drupal database and updates the phpBB database each time a user logs in. It also provides a block that lists recent topics from the forum. This module requires mod_rewrite / clean URLs and is not recommended for beginners.
Barry Gallagher
2009-06-21 09:05:05
+1 for phpBB.
Charlie Somerville
2009-06-21 09:11:31
Having the forum as a separate thing is the road to all sorts of pain. Besides the poor integration between the system, it'll be a very confusing user experience, having two user profiles, two different places to go to edit them. If you want to provide a seamless experience, you'll have to put in a lot of hours to customise the two systems to look and work alike.
mikl
2009-06-22 05:09:54
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You can look at using the core forum module from Drupal http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/forum. It is easily extensible and you can customise to your needs. Take a look at all these.
- advanced forum (Is highly recommended)
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- bbcode
Webber
2009-06-21 09:06:39
Yeah, I have great experiences with advanced forums as well. It provides most of the stuff you'll need. There's a lot more interesting modules for providing rather specific functionality to forums, but which to use depends heavily on what kind of forum you want.
mikl
2009-06-22 05:12:40
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There's quite a bit of work going on right now on AdvForum, and the 'DruBB' project. The maintainer of AdvForum and the release maintainer for Drupal 7 are both putting a fair bit of energy into DruBB as a Drupal-native alternative to PHPBB, and it's worth watching even if it isn't ready to deploy immediately. If you have any develpment chops and are willing to poke your head into the code, they can almost certainly use help with the development work, or with testing.
Eaton
2009-06-22 17:15:59
I'm pretty sure Ardi is looking for something he can use DruBB is clearly in developmental stages
j3frea
2009-06-25 13:46:38
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Shameless self-promotion: I created an alternative to Advanced Forum for Drupal 6, called RP Forum. If gives you a full featured (albeit simple) forum with as few additional downloads as possible. One of the reasons I disliked Advanced Forum is that it can require 10 - 20 additional module downloads to build up the feature set you want.
Anyway, RP Forum (and a live demo) can be found on my site: http://www.richardpeacock.com/blog/2010/10/rp-forum-drupal-6-module
Richard
2010-10-30 12:22:30