Mohit, While i am not a fan of drupal, this thread did remind me of a rails plugin i saw a few months ago: http://github.com/harukizaemon/drupal_fu/tree/master
As a last resort it might be of use to you. > Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:55:25 +0800 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Radiant] Simple Machines Forum + Radiant > > Joel Oliveira wrote: > > If Beast is something you'd want to explore, then I'd recommend > > Altered Beast which, I think, is a fork that's actually active in its > > development. > > > > On Jun 28, 2009, at 4:13 PM, "John W. Long" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Mohit, > >> > >> Have you thought about integrating Beast with Radiant? I think there > >> was some work done on this in the past. Not sure if it ever came to > >> fruition. Just wondering why you want to use SMF. > Hi John & Joel > > Thanks for your answers. Actually, a while back, a colleague helped me > review the four main options for forums in Rails: > * Beast/ Altered Beast > * El Dorado - focused more on being a holistic site, rather than a forum. > * RForum - fantastic, but still on Rails 1.1.6 with little or no active > development > and 1 more. > > The general thing we ended up with was that the Rails based forums were > lacking: > 1. Good spam control > 2. Active development > 3. Support for easy customization of themes, etc. > 4. An active community developing things like add-ons or plugins to add > other features > 5. Things like getting an email when a board you're watching is updated > > I'm making a few sweeping statements here (sorry) but that was roughly > what we found. In contrast, I got the feeling that SMF is quite mature > with most of these features already in place. I think it's roughly > based on vBulletin - so, it has a lot of features and more importantly, > has the features I think I need. > > My personal preference would be RForum - I think it's fast, smooth, > fantastic and quite feature-rich. But, seeing as it's not actively > developed any more and is still on Rails 1.1.6 (I think), I decided to > veer towards SMF. Even Altered Beast has not been updated since Oct > 2008 (not that far back, admittedly). I would really like to see a > separate project called Radiant BBS built with the same ease, > extensibility and cool class as Radiant CMS. > > But in the meanwhile, back to the original question - I was wondering if > anyone has any experience in making the two work together? I think I > may not want too much from it - but share some data about users, recent > posts, etc. I think it would be too much work to "share layouts" but a > few days of CSS work with it has resulted in very similar looking > pages. I can live with that. > > Any ideas anyone? (Just for completeness, SMF is written in PHP.) > > Cheers > Mohit. > > > _______________________________________________ > Radiant mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant _________________________________________________________________ Lauren found her dream laptop. Find the PC that’s right for you. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/choosepc/?ocid=ftp_val_wl_290_______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: [email protected] Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
