Post installation

I've seen a number of posts about the frustrations of using OG and forums, I've "suffered" too. I got drupal just over a month ago with the aim of building an e-learning portal type site for my students at college. I leapt at OG, it's ideal for splitting the students into groups of courses. Naturally, I wanted to use forums and I had the following needs:

• Each course has their own list of private forums.
• Tutors should have a totally private list of forums
• There should be some forums that are open to everyone.

Here's how I did it. I don't know how "legal" it is Drupal wise, but it works good enough until webchick or somebody else gets og_forum working how we want ;)

This method does not touch any of the core files, instead my approach was thru theming as it is part of the presentation... isn't it?..... You will need a template.php and a forum-list.tpl.php in your theme folder.

General logic

In the template.php I create an array ($ugrps) that contains the nid's of all the forums I want visible. Then in forum-list.tpl.php the line if (in_array($forum->tid, $forumgrps)) { checks if the current forum is the one I want to see.

This method can easily be changed to forums visible by role or quantity of post, points or whatever. I haven't tried to have for example a public forum inside a private container as I don't need it.

How do I start over, or start a new site without reinstalling apache/php/mysql (I´m using apache2triad)?

Is there anyway to show a page using the view module that has multiple rows of data.

EXAMPLE:
NodeID Hours Rate Amount
1 3.5 44 154
Node Descrition: Blah Blah Blah
2 4 44 176
Node Descrition: Blah Blah Blah

Thoughts? Thanks in advance.

Hi,

Is there anyway to set up 3 or 4 forums on the one site? so they would share the site theme, login etc etc.

thanks
Dave.

i have a problem and i need a solution quickly if it is posible

when i add a imagen when the interfaz of de module img_assist, the rute of the image is

http://localhost/files/images/semanaLibro.img_assist_custom.jpg

but the link in the image is to a node

the problem is that the users cannot see the image but if they can see the link?

what can i do?

pleasee need help

thaks

Is there a way to easily import event/calander info from Eventful or Upcoming directly into the events module? It looks there are some modules and development in progress (I'm going to start playing around). Wondering if there any good examples of people integrating the data into their drupal sites?