Hi there,
I'm porting a site to Drupal which has been going relatively smoothly so far however...
Now I've got to port their nasty proprietary m$ forum over too *bleurgh*...
I've written a python program to convert the original forum database into a form of my choosing (pidgin xml at the moment but easy to output in any format) so the data format's not a problem. Given Drupal's considerably superior functionality I'm working on the assumption that injecting this data into a drupal forum may not be v.straightforward!! so...
Q1...
Is this actually the case? If it's much faff at all I'll just mothball the existing content and make it searchable but if it's not too big a job I might attempt it.
Secondly, and more importantly, I need to make the new forum work just like their old forum (very oldskool!!!!), NO topics, just one big board with all the posts UNROLLED! (see: http://www.cmlsupport.org.uk/Templates/DiscussTemplate.aspx?navigation=40k). The site owners are adamant and unmoveable on this despite my pleas for sanity and modernity. So...
Q2...
How hard might it be to customise the forum module to act/display in this way?
Is it something I could accomplish with CSS or will I have to mess with the PHP?
&might it be easier/better to write a primitve forum module from scratch?
Pls bear in mind SQL and PHP are not my strong suit (yet anyway!)
Thanks,