By vaultofgaming on

Is there any module out there that will make the forums on Drupal more like a real forums? When posting, its hard for my members to do what they want such as post images, or videos without trying to figure out the BBCode or HTML for it. The bbcome and html page is there for them to see, but it still makes it quite difficult.

Or is there some way to Integrate forums into drupal?

I just want my forums to react more like forums.

And when logged out, the Anonymous users can see the blogs link, as well as my secondary My Account link. All I want the front page to show for Anonymous Users is Register, Login, front page, and Community. And for logged in users, I don't want them to see Create Content to Authorized Users. Because all my authorized users can do is post in forums. And having create content with only showing "Forum Topic". Basically what I am asking is, How do I make certain links invisible to some users but visible to other users?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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vaultofgaming commented

Also. I was wondering how I could fix the forums so when someone comments or replies to someone, it doesn't go right under their post, it goes from oldest to newest?

Kinda like a real forum. Original Poster on Top, and everything else is below him/her is oldest to newest. And when clicking reply, it shows as a quote.

I find my forum posts jumping up and down lol.

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Sc0tt commented

not exactly sure what you are looking for in forum look or functionality; but you might take a look at the Advanced Forum Module located here.

Scott

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vaultofgaming commented

Im doing the advanced forum thing now. Ill post if it works as good as i read.

But how else would I allow my staff members to view the website when in Maintenance mode? My staff members have no administrator abilities and I dont plan on giving it to them because they dont know how to run Drupal so they would end up messing stuff up, but I would like my staff to be able to login and view the site at least.

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vaultofgaming commented

Advanced Forum didnt do much at all. All it did was change the look... My forums won't change from old to new at all and I can't get rid of the reply button under each post. The new posts always go directly under the original post, even if i set it to Oldest to Newest.

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yelvington commented

I've been using and running forums since 1985, and there are many, many models for organizing conversation.

What you're experiencing is known as the Baby Duck Syndrome -- you're attached to the first model you encountered, and you want the world to work that way. But you should not expect every piece of software to be alike.

Most software tends to hard-code conversational models. Drupal is configurable.

If you want to switch from threaded to flat, do it. If you want time to run backwards, you can do that. I think BBcode is a primitive and silly solution, but if you want BBcode, there's a contributed module that adds a BBcode filter.

But you have to read the documentation, pay attention to what's in the administrative menus, and do the configuration work.

Drupal supports different commenting configurations for each content type, so your first stop should be admin -> content -> content types. Edit the content type you're dealing with, and look for the "comment settings" fieldset.

If you want to use BBCode, some other custom filter, or a rich text editor, get acquainted with the search box at the top right of this page.

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vaultofgaming commented

I never knew I could change them with Content types. Thank you so much :D

Now I just need to figure out how to create links that our invisible to anonymous users. As well as a link thats invisible to my non-staff members so I can create a staff section. Of course the staff section would have to be password protected, or have a Staff Permissions only. Ill have to read more on it if i can figure it out, if i cant ill be back i suppose.

Thank you all!

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willazilla commented

I was just researching Forums as well, and ran across an article from Lullabot that mentioned the Forum Access module (http://drupal.org/project/forum_access). It sounds like exactly what you need, segmented control. But there were other options in the article. The article is at http://www.lullabot.com/articles/private_forums_in_drupal_forum_access_v....