vb Comments

[Caerydd]

I have a problem/query/suggestion.

In my forum, we have one forum where news is posted to and commented on. Ideally, stuff promoted to the front page would be listed there and commented on in the forums. Brilliant.

BUT I want to use the original comments.module of drupal in order to keep comments on the website - so people can comment on individual blog posts, and so that editors can discuss submitted articles - so that the majority of my content doesn't get a duplicate thread on the forums every time.

It might not be so bad if you could specify different forums for different node type comments, but I don't believe that is an option yet. Ideally I would be able to send front page news comments to our current news forum, with the entire news story (brilliant!) and then have a hidden forum for moderators where they can comment on submitted content

OR (and this would be better) the drupal comments system running alongside the vb comments.

Is this possible? Can I just rename everything in the drupal comments module to something like 'webcomments.module' create a second database, and then duplicate the call to comment.module in the relevant places?


*php newbie, but relatively capable in editing/hacking*

[Herrold]

That is a great idea that I am looking to implement as well.

The ability to pick and choose which commenting module to use for a particular node.

It would be nice to see in the menu for Comments:

"Enable"
"Create Forum Discussion"
"Disable"

And be able to decide whether the comments appear below the content node through comments.module or use comments_vb.module to create the appropriate forum thread for discussion.

[Herrold]

Or at least to separate the comments from the creation of the vBulletin forum for the topic.

In other words, there are some instances where we want to just create the vBulletin forum, point the content node to that forum and that is it.

In other instances we do not want to create a vBulletin node but rather just want users to comment using the standard drupal comments module.

We don't want to replace the Drupal comments, but more like specify that a node needs a forum thread created and then link to it.

Instead of "comments_vb" causing an either or with "comments", it should exists as another menu option "Forum Discussion". With the same options that exist for it now.

Does that make any sense?