Advanced Forum

Advanced forum enhances Drupal's forum module to provide the look and, with the help of other modules, much of the functionality found in common forum software. Because it uses the core forum module, it uses the node and comment system built into Drupal and is completely integrated, not a bridge. Though it can make use of many contributed modules, it is only dependent on core modules: forum, taxonomy, comment, and statistics.

Features

• Comes with fully customizable styles to make your forum look like more traditional forums.
• Integrates the display of many forum related contrib modules.
• Adds ability to mark all topics or topics in a forum as read.
• Adds views column to topic list
• Adds extra information and shortcuts such as pagers on topics, link to last post in the forum, jumps within topics, and more.

Dependencies

• Requires: Forum, taxonomy, comments, phptemplate based theme
• Recommended: Statistics (for views counter) and Flatcomments (to avoid issues due to the underlying threads when forums are visually set flat.)
• Others: For a complete forum package, see this list of other contrib modules.