Hello all :0)
Pls excuse the newbieness but we all have to start somewhere! (pls be gentle =)
I am about to embark on porting a nasty proprietary .NET/asp based site to a nice free open source technology and Drupal is top of my list to do this so far. However, before I go too far down this route I could do with finding out a bit more about the workings of the forum module, specifically the the language it is written in (php?) database used to run it (mysql??) and the format of the records in it.
Please can somebody point me to the forum modules developers site/code, or indeed any site/document that will explain the underlying tech so I can guage how much work it will be? Cheers! :-)
For anyone further concerned with the context..
The site is a communty/charity site, quite well suited to Drupal in most ways, however.. The core of the site is it's forum which has been running/growing for over 5 years! It is really old fashioned and ugly but despite my discouragement the site owners REALLY want to keep the format as it is (fully expanded threads, no topic containers, virtually no graphics) so I'm going to need to downgrade the forum module and port over thousands of (searchable) posts from yesteryear!..
I am working with a good coder who's confident he can port the posts as long as the forum is based on a SQL database.. Hacking the forum interface we're more sketchy about! Has anyone here tried anything similar.. how much of a nightmare was it/do you think that will be?