Advantages to building a forum in Drupal 6 vs. Drupal 5
I'm currently building a forum in Drupal 5.x but having some problems... I'm wondering if anybody has some experience in building one in D6 and what the pros and cons might be.
In particular, in D5 I can't seem to get the granularity I want for your basic "authenticated user"... I want them to be able to start threads and edit their own (nobody else's) thread-posts for a limited time (w/some kind of "edited on" stamp) but not be able to delete them.
And for comments, I want them to be able to edit their own comments for a limited time (15 minutes?) w/"edited on" stamp.
So far, haven't found a way to achieve these. Is it more doable in D6? I might be willing to give up some of the other D5 modules I like if I gain these features in the trade.
JeevesBond posted this at 02:10 — 11th November 2008.
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I believe the granularity is a little better in Drupal 6. If I remember correctly, the first of your criteria is met by Drupal 6. However, unless there is a module to do it, there's no way to allow editing a comment for a limited time.
If you have any Drupal coding experience, perhaps you could create that module? I believe it would be used by a large number of people.
As for building a site in Drupal 5 vs. Drupal 6. You should always try to use six, unless there is a module you need that is only available for five. These are getting gradually less-and-less.
We are still stuck on five, although I haven't checked for a while whether we could, in theory, upgrade.
Hope this helps, and sorry for not replying sooner.
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aharown07 posted this at 22:39 — 17th November 2008.
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As it turns out, several modules I need are still only avail. in 5.x though most have 6.x work in progress to one degree or another.
Found a "hack" for edit time time limit. It involves patching the core comment module, but this is a must have for me so... made alot of notes and patched it.
I hope I eventually have the skills to code some modules. Not there yet though. The edit time limit one would be a good candidate for a first module since it's pretty simple, judging by how many lines of code were involved.
... plus, we're going to migrate a vBulletin forum in and to do that, we need to be in 5.x, really. So we start w/5.x. Probably will be ready to upgrade to 6 in a few months.
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