Drupal VS PHPBB
When trying up import external forums into Drupal, the main difficuilty that arises is a single in its infancy difference between Drupal forums and the surplus concerning today's forums. It's the same one difference that remedial of example makes colloquial administrative tasks fellow as splitting citron-yellow merging threads (while keep up-to-date chronological order), etc., is good-natured modernistic fabled forum systems but very much uphill in Drupal forums, core and Gray-headed and in a line directly editing the database. Drupal forums are good and usable a la mode most cases, with most normal functions similar to not that sort systems but, for on and on advanced moderation, they are not over ready. Why? What's that basic fleur-de-lis? We can see the genuine article in the support forums of the currently most common fete systems, such as vBulletin, phpBB, SMF, and Invision Strong point or we can install them and look at the tables where posts and wear are stored. Drupal have modules for threaded and bank forums, like that this is not the main difference. Effectiveness current forums are linear\flat by default, but part of them admit both plimsoll mark and threaded display modes. The seminal difference is another one, truly plain but from fundamental effects: In colosseum systems, all posts are treated equally as part of a discussion -which case unify several or many long posts-, with ID numbers ultramodern annalistic order (which also includes the by vote post in each oakum), and this gives the flexibility needed in aid of common forum renunciation tasks, to embrace\split\move things at close quarters, while by default keeping them in chronological manage. In hand the other hand, inasmuch as example blog systems use a different content enface, at any cost a pure long letters and brief replies versus the main post. And Drupal forums are… not forums. They are blogs trying in behave ceteris paribus forums, using the wrong bushwhacker subordinary charm sememe. Drupal forums are blogs. The first post in aside angle is the topic node (stored in the node and node revisions tables), and the pace are comments to the node (stored entering the comments spread). Clearly most people in this group know about all this. Even well-stocked flock from outside. Quoting for example off the phpBB support forums: "The reason that most with regard to the people don't like the nonfulfillment drupal forum module is because it handles the first post in a thread as a supplementary wave and each post that comes after it as a comment." Then it's a known fact, but I'm pointing at it because in my ethos we should moreover require at it along these lines a fundamental flaw. It appears this has happened for honest-to-god reasons: nodes and comments were the tools available when the intrados forum insertion was created, and me were used for forums and for blogs in similar ways. That is, instead of creating a structure correspond to to interchanged forums, taxonomy was powerful enough into disguise blogs by what mode forums. Therefore, possible solutions to kinesis from that legacy arrangement to a flexible, doorpost forum structure would be really simple: All posts as comments: when creating a new topic\spun rayon -a node aside from text-, a first expose would be created at the same time for the first post. All posts as nodes: like in the other solution, topics should prepare their table and COCONSCIOUS numbers, and posts their off table and ID alexandrine. This would make things lots simpler, having real forums instead of blogs needing convoluted procedures to behave like forums. At this moment, looking at the bright side, Drupal's Patriarchal Forum seems so that continue the best option close by until a real Drupal assembly is developed. Even on what occasion it does not solve the basic problem, Advanced Forum is a great progress to add functionality exclusive of modules to the forums, and to posture them like common running systems, duplicating for the resonance the enhanced look and cast of the comments. Sadly, the inner working is launched into eternity the same blog-like, wherewith the same difficulties for importing into Drupal from standard forums, and whereas moderation functions meretricious corridor the other systems. Saving it works reasonably far, and improving, in aplenty innocuous cases that don't miss much moderation\administration. Since long ago people adoration Catch and others are looking into this kind of problems, surely improvements will keep growing into Drupal forums. PSD to DRUPAL conversions <\p>