Hi,
I am still developing the extended forum module, but I have now big project at my work so the forum module project won't be ready by February, but I hope that I'll release the pre-alpha version by March. And I hope to post screen shots as soon as I can.
Anyway, I got an issue that I would like to discuss with you about.
Do you prefer different theme for the forum? I mean, does the way that you want to display the thread/node will be different than your regular node look? Please post here links one for your site and one for your forum, that I can review the difference between the two, and just to get know better each other.
Another thing, I got some trouble with the permissions. One of the main problems is that the forum uses the node system, so for example if you would like to post a poll in the forums you must give the users access to 'post poll' content type, but it causes a security issue that the user would be able to post the poll in other taxonomy terms. One resolution is to use the 'taxonomy_access' module, but there is still no version available for Drupal 5, and I don't know if they'll make one. If anybody has any idea how to solve that problem please talk back :)
Well, that's all I can say for now and Happy new year to everyone.
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TAC 5.0
There is a 5.0 patch commited to HEAD- http://drupal.org/node/91468
I am using it on my test site, so far so good...
Thanks.
Thanks for the information,
I'll take a look on it at the weekend.
Anyway, I've tried to look at the new node access API, and I got some troubles to understand it.
I hope to understand it ASAP, because the code design of the forum security is my main problem now.
A suggestion: I think that
A suggestion: I think that the most needed phpBB-like features could be achieved with a smart combination of existent modules, as I explain here. Is it really needed to create a new forum module? Wouldn't it be better to help developing these other modules? This sounds smarter and more efficient and flexible to me. DruBB could be released as a package of these modules.
Yes, I agree. It would be
Yes, I agree. It would be far better and more useful to the Drupal project as a whole if we were to first define a set of requirements for DruBB - probably best done on a wiki page rather than is this group. Is there a DruBB requirements document somewhere?
Then to see what enhancements, extensions and options need to be built into existing modules to make them better and capable of running the DruBB requirements. A combination of these modules could then be used to build DruBB.
The benefits to Drupal are that the modules mature rather than being slung away. The new module features will most likely be useful for other projects within Drupal.
For example: one thing I'd like to see is a comment be a node. That way everything you can currently do to a node you would also be able to do to a comment. And maybe enhance the Views module (if it needs it) to list the comments (now nodes) in various ways - depending on admin and user prefs. And now that comments are now nodes we'd be able to rate them, etc.
That's the way I think we should go. Build a requirements document. And then enhance current modules/components to make it all work. Far more benefit to the community.
Cheers Daniel
That's what I'm trying to do
That's what I'm trying to do here. There is other attempt here.