Gallery's Drupal Forum

Submitted by Bryan on June 20, 2006 - 4:07am

The Gallery, a web based photo management system, recently upgraded their Website to Drupal 4.7.2. When you get a chance, check out their forum. One of the criticisms of forums in Drupal is that...well they don't look like the forums we know. At least Drupal's default forum does not look like those we see by default in phpBB and SMF.

The folks at Gallery have done a nice job to show just what Drupal can do for a site's forum. Some of the custom code the Gallery has put into their site has also submitted back to the Drupal project:

It was a significant effort to migrate our custom code to this release, but the improved design should make future upgrades a bit easier. We've also been able to give some of our work back to the Drupal project, particularly in the comment_upload, privatemsg and bbcode_wysiwyg modules. Posted at Gallery

Those interested in changing the look and feel of Drupal's forums will also want to check out the flatforum theme template found at Drupal.org.

Here at CMS Report, we have no plans at this time to providing a forum to discuss various CMS projects and applications. We already have a SMF forum, the WebCMS Forum, covering the same forum topics. While we would have no problem in using Drupal's forum module, we like SMF. Using more than one CMS application helps us widen our experiences and keep us impartial to which CMS may be right for users. A philosophy we continue to hammer here and there.

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drupal forums in inkscape gallery

Submitted by Davide (not verified) on February 11, 2008 - 7:10am.

Well, i just wanted to inform you about the new drupal forums in inkscape gallery. We followed the work done for the gallery's forums and we hope they have a cool looking even if they're not powerful as much as other specific forum softwares.

if you want to see them (they ar two forums , 'cause the website is bilingual) go to http://www.inkscapegallery.net/forum/23 for the english one

-thanks,

Da.

http://www.inkscapegallery.net

Very Nice

Submitted by Bryan on February 11, 2008 - 6:16pm.
Davode, Very nice. So now that you've done a forum using Drupal's forum...what are you thoughts? Glad you went that route or wish you would have gone with the more mainstream forums?

it is growing...so this will be the right choice

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on February 12, 2008 - 9:00am.

Thank you bryan...

I'm happy about the drupal forum, combined with the advanced forum module.

It is not complete, not so powerful but it gives integration with the rest of the website and i think this is very important. You're still in the website when you go to the forums in inskcape gallery, you don't have to login twice, and not even to register twice.

That it means that you need an extra work to build the infrastructure, giving the forum its own "space" and autonomy but keeping it integrated with the website.

So, i hope people to like that forums, i do.

see you,

Da.

http://inkscapegallery.net