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liam mcdermott's picture

Show parent forum in tracker

Posted by liam mcdermott on December 28, 2007 at 4:43pm

We've got a /tracker menu item to show new forum posts. Great. Only problem is it doesn't show the forum the topic is posted under, my first thought is that this could easily be fixed by using a view instead of the tracker. Problem with this is that views can't show whether there are new posts in a topic. So should I:

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  • Patch tracker.module to include the category (can't see this getting into Drupal core somehow);
  • copy tracker.module and customise it (then hack it every time a new version of Drupal is released: yuk);
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    LarryEitel's picture

    vBulletin to Drupal

    Posted by LarryEitel on April 6, 2007 at 5:55pm

    I am the lead developer of www.NoBlood.org, a site built on vB. I have embarked on porting the data over to Drupal. Thus far, I have succeeded in the ability to move all forums, threads and posts over to Drupal. I am currently working on an extended user/usernode registration/profile system. It's coming along nicely.

    Well, although it would be nice to see more vB/phpBB functionality in Drupal, existing sites will be hard pressed to abandon their current, hard earned, users and data.

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