D7 Core forum development wiki
This wiki page is for discussing the plan of attack for D7 core forums.
NB. Please try to keep discussion to concrete tasks and ideas on how this can be accomplished. There are plenty of threads for feature requests elsewhere in the DruBB group, so feel free to read and add to those.
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Drupal 7 core forum module - plan of attack
Drupal's core forum module is much maligned. Some of this is unjustified - people expecting it to replace standalone solutions by itself and ignoring the nature of Drupal's modular framework. However, it also has some limitations which are a result of its age and require many workarounds for large community sites.
Many of the forum module's limitations are down to its dependency on the taxonomy module (making it hard to integrate with organic groups etc.) and on comment.module, which is itself in need of a rewrite.
So we're proposing a ground up rewrite of forum.module using nodes.
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Advanced Forum Module Master To Do List
Note: This list is no longer being updated as the to do list is soley in the issue queue.
Last update: March 13, 2008
KNOWN ISSUES
5/6 Last post doesn't recognize shadow posts (core forum issue)
5/6 Bleed-thru from theme makes unthemed forums look funny
6 _is_forum needs to take into account node types other than forum.
6 Mark all read needs to work on node types other than forum.
6 Mark all read needs menu code implemented
6 Make caching work on last post fetching
DOCUMENTING
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