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CHAPTER 3 USING THE DRUPAL CORE MODULES Filter Module The Filter module manages the filters and input formats that it and other modules define. As explained in Chapter 2, filters process all content before it is displayed in the browser. They can do interesting things such as prevent unwanted or dangerous code or scripts from being executed, parse wiki syntax or other forms of markup, convert line breaks to HTML
tags, and detect e-mail addresses or URLs in the text and convert them into hyperlinks. The Filter module is a required module and is enabled automatically. You can configure it by selecting administer . input formats (admin/filters). Configuring this module was covered in Chapter 2. Forum Module Forums are one of the most popular formats for group discussion on the Internet and often form an online community of their own. Most Web users are accustomed to some flavor of discussion forum. Drupal is equipped with a flexible Forum module, which you can configure to suit a number of different approaches to forums, leveraging the entire range of standard Drupal features such as categories, file uploads, and content filtering. After you enable the Forum module, you must define some forums and optionally, some containers. Additionally, since a forum topic consists of a content node and comments, the configuration of the Comment module plays a large role in how your forums look and behave. The configuration page for comments is admin/comment/configure. See Chapter 2 for details on configuring comments. Configuring Containers and Forums To access the forum configuration page, select administer . forums (admin/forum). This page has three tabs: Add Container, Add Forum, and Configure. Containers are groups of forums and, though they aren t necessary, they lend a nice bit of organization or overview to your forums, especially if you have more than a couple forums. Containers are a means of organizing your forums by topic. Topics cannot be posted to containers; containers are merely for organizing forums. Note On Drupal.org, you can see the application of containers on the forums page (http:// www.drupal.org/forum). The containers are General, Support, and Development, and they are visually set apart from the individual forum topics. The actual topics, or threads, can be posted to the forums. Select the Add Container tab to view the form to add a new container. The contents of the Container Name and Description fields will be visible to users in the forum overview. Use the Parent and Weight fields to place the container in the hierarchy. Containers are best left at the top level. Once you have defined your containers (or decided you don t need any), you can define your forums. Select the Add Forum tab to add forums. This page is identical to the one for adding containers. Although it is possible to add a forum with another forum as its parent, it is more logical to have all of your forums be either top-level or the child of a
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