Drupal 5 compatibility and conversion from standard Drupal Forum Module?

1: in the coming weeks

2: no :)

Well I'm currently finding it difficult to get time to sit down and get the work down for the conversion - I've yet to even read the documentation for developers so that I'll know what to do in the first place!
Real-life work has taken a firm hold on me at the moment and it's not letting go - I just don't have the time right now to justify the level of work needed on a non-paying job :)

Daniel

I've got a conversion to Drupal 5 about 50%-60% done, just got the changes in the Forms API to go. Taken less than 2 hour so far, I'm a coding machine :-)

More a case of time than anything, the remaining work is pretty mind numbing.

Hope to have a releasable version for Daniel to play with in the next week or so (I may need this module for an upcoming project of mine, so there's a pretty good chance it'll get done). I'm not going to add any more features yet, I want to get it up and running on 5.1 and then I might add on some new abilities.

Vigo - I'm impressed. I'm looking forward to seeing what you've done with the code! There are a number of places that I'd like cleaned up, no doubt you can see from the code that it's not the most efficient piece of software ever written, however I have made vast improvements over the early 4.6 versions with regard to performance and the various recursive functions I use.

Can I ask, was it difficult for you to understand how the system worked?

I didn't really look at the code much - just went right through the 4.7 to 5 upgrade list (all 44 points) and checked to see if they applied. Tunnel vision and exhaustion were actually very useful for this project :-)

The real fun is the forms, nothing needs changing in the form structure itself but the way of generation & callback has changed significantly.

So, how's it going?
When you're done with it, I want to start looking into using templates for the display of posts and the various pages that are currently hard coded into the module files :)

Not had time to work on it for a couple of days, been very ill. Now have paid work to catch up on, but this is near the top of my list.

Once I've transformed the display functions I can refactor them to be themable. I'd also like to explore using the standard node system, 5.0's custom content-types + cck give us significant power, and even more if we can break it down enough to let the user use contemplates for post displays. Eventually I'd like to see a 'forum' installation package for Drupal, make it all nice and easy.

It certainly does! :)

Ah, look what you've done! Now all of us evil lurkers are drooling, and eagerly waiting for the 5.x port! :-)

Well then stop lurking and start coding ;) :p

Vigo - if you use irc at all, jump on to irc.quakenet.org, and join #uieforum. I idle in there alot and tis the perfect place to discuss your changes.

Daniel

wow, this project does exactly what I need for a forum!!

I know it is hard to estimate, but how much is there left? I would really need this forum module to atleast be somewhat funktional by the end of next week !!

Is there anything I could do to help you??
I am no coder (but I can "read" code and copy/paste and test code)
maybe participate in other ways?
please feel free to contact me if you need help/testers

I'll probably have the first revision of the port to 5.1 for zoro's approval by the end of next week, testing help will be required.

then count me in as a testperson :D

I have everything ready to try every single aspekt of it :D

/Michael

:)

Well I'm sure we won't have anyproblems with finding testers ;) Deadhobo has been an avid follower of this module since day 1 - I'm sure he'd be more than willing to help out with the testing of the 5.* port too. He's been involved in the testing of every major version so far ;)

Count another tester in!

Hi there

How is it going?

Sign me up for beta testing -- I'm eager to put UIEforums back up on my site and I'd love to see how it works in Drupal 5

Have my head around the new form processing system. Hoping to have time to implement it over the next few days. Busy busy!

*throws hat in the air* wooo ;)

I appreciate your work vigo

I'm looking forward for this. Please share with us more details regarding the evolution of your work.

I've seen UIE Forum in action on the demo site, and I can't wait to see the drupal 5.x version! :)

how is it going?? any progress?

i second that, keep us updated. i'm very excited to have a 5.1-compatible version of this project :)

I've spent a few hours over the weekend working on this... lets just say that it's not quite as simple as I would have hoped :)

The change from 4.6 to 4.7 was relatively easy. But the change from 4.7 to 5.0 will require a few major re-workings of the forum logic to account for the (massive) differences in how the new form system works.

/me sighs
I'm working on it :)

Daniel

The first 5.0 tarball is now up on drupal.org - I know there are problems with the page-forwarding after adminning posts/threads/forums, but I'm interested to know if anyone has any other issues with the system too.

Daniel

Hi Daniel!

This is splendid!!! Right on time for me to implement it before my big comany release of drupal :D

My problem now is that I am away on a Security Course, but as soon as I get backto my hotell, I will try this new version out on my testserver!! Many thanks!! I will report how it works to you later! and perhaps I might even be able to help you *smile*

many many thanks!

/Michael

:)

Well let me know how it goes - and open new bug reports for anything you find :p

it probably is just stupidity but i cant create new forums... only new threads... help me plz.

i love this forum module. id be in for some testing as well :D

my bad... :D just found it all ... so it was stupidity ^^

:) You just made me download uieforum, drupal 5.1, and wamp. Install wamp, install and configure drupal, and JUST before I extract uieforum into the modules directorty i get a ping about a new email...

pfft :)

me again... i have a problem adding security groups. when i try to add one it says

* You must enter a thread title
* You must enter a thread body

i have however filled in all the boxes that are available (2 :D) anyone knows what i can do about that?

im really sorry about that... but i submitted a new problem :D does that help?

Are you sure you submitted a bug report?

http://drupal.org/node/129472

I've made one myself anyway. I've also updated the HEAD and drupal 5.0 repositories with the latest code. It won't reflect until midnight though

A few small issues I've noticed so far...

1. Changing the access path to forum mashes the two forum configs together, and makes editing them impossible. (work around - don't do that!)
2. The breadcrums in the forum are shadowed.
3. Forum does not match colour theme (if you've moved from the standard blue).

Other than those (liveable) issues - Good Job!

1. Didnt notice that myself. I must look into that

2. Now _THAT_ I did notice, and it only happens in Garland. I haven't a _CLUE_ why that's happening :D

3. My own fault for using custom styles I'm afraid. I'll move it over to use standard ones soon enough though, as well as distributing an optional stylesheet that can be enabled/disabled in the configuration

The shadowed breadcrumbs kinda surprised me too :-)

Apart from that, I have one significant issue : I never get any kind of information regarding new threads, or new messages in a thread. The icons never change (appearing as a closed envelope).