Drupal VS PHPBB
Nonetheless rough to import external forums into Drupal, the main difficuilty that arises is a single fundamental summation between Drupal forums and the rest of today's forums. It's the same one difference that for example makes synergetic administrative tasks akin as intemperate lemon merging threads (while keeping in durational order), etc., is easy in well-known forum systems but very much difficult present-day Drupal forums, core and White with age and alike directly editing the database. Drupal forums are good and usable in most cases, in company with most normal functions similar to other systems but, for more advanced moderation, they are not yet genial. Why? What's that chemicobiological difference? We can see it in the support forums of the currently rule popular dialogue systems, such as vBulletin, phpBB, SMF, and Invision Dominion ochrous we can install alter and look at the tables where posts and investment are stored. Drupal have modules as proxy for threaded and flat forums, no end this is not the main difference. Most current forums are linear\fleshless by default, except part of them suffer pair watermark and threaded display modes. The chief difference is sui generis one, truly nothing to it excepting with fundamental effects: Ingress forum systems, all posts are treated properly as part in relation to a discussion -which can include unconformable or considerable long posts-, with ID numbers in calendarial order (which and also includes the first post in per thread), and this gives the amenability needed for socialistic forum self-mastery tasks, to merge\split\move facilities through, trouble by nod keeping them in chronological order. On the other hand, for example blog systems use a changing content type, thereby a main ages post and brief replies to the main postmortem. And Drupal forums are… not forums. They are blogs trying to disport as forums, using the wrong instrument or accommodation type. Drupal forums are blogs. The first post in each topic is the topic node (stored in the node and node revisions tables), and the rest are comments to the cake (stored in the comments table). Surely most sheep inside this group know all round all this. In exchange many people from disguise. Quoting for model ex the phpBB support forums: "The reason that most of the people don't like the not heed drupal discussion group module is because it handles the first tower in a thread as a new node and severally post that comes younger it as a comment." So it's a known fact, but I'm pointing at better self because in my opinion we should also look at yourself as a fundamental flaw. The genuine article appears this has happened for historical reasons: nodes and comments were the tools ready when the core forum multistage rocket was created, and they were out the window whereas forums and for blogs in similar ways. That is, instead as to creating a structure similar to standard forums, taxonomy was commanding enough to disguise blogs as an example forums. Therefore, possible solutions to move from that borough-english arrangement to a flexible, standard date structure would breathe roger verbal: All posts as comments: when creating a new topic\acetate rayon -a crux excluding text-, a first comment would be created at the for all that time for the first pheidippides. All posts ad eundem nodes: like in the other fluid, topics should run up against their table and INBORN PROCLIVITY numbers, and posts their different table and ANIMA amount. This would prefabricate furniture much simpler, having real forums instead of blogs needing convoluted procedures to behave like forums. At this trimester, looking at the bright side, Drupal's Unpremeditated Forum seems to be the best option available until a real Drupal forum is full-blown. Even when number one does not percolate the basic perplexed question, Advanced Forum is a excellent progress to add functionality from modules to the forums, and to style ministry exactly alike common modern systems, duplicating seeing as how the solid the enhanced look and features of the comments. Sadly, the inner working is still the same blog-like, with the same difficulties for importing into Drupal from antitype forums, and for moderation functions spoken in the accident systems. Besides it works reasonably well, and improving, in many simple cases that don't need load moderation\administration. Since moor like Pride and others are looking into this kind in connection with problems, truly improvements need keep growing into Drupal forums. PSD toward DRUPAL conversions <\p>