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10/29/2012 2:02 PM
 
onalaska98


Joined: 10/23/2012
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Environment: Windows 2008R2 | IIS 7.5 | DNN 6.02.04 Community | DotNetNuke Forums 5.00.04

I am new to DNN and looking to setup a website with Forums. I have loaded up both the Active Forums extension and DotNetNuke Forum extension. Can anyone tell me which I should go forward with? It doesn't appear (based on the forums of either site) that there is a lot of activity on either one so I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing the boat going with one or the other (or either). I am coming from a PHPBB/Dragonfly CMS environment over to DNN and looking for something that will be as nice as PHPBB if possible.

An issue I have run in to with both Forum Extensions is with the Facebook Authentication piece of DNN. I can register and login with a simple click of the facebook button but when a user logs in to the site with their facebook information DNN pulls their name from Facebook and makes it their DNN display name. If the user updates the displayname in DNN and saves changes it will work during that session, however it will revert back to their full name from Facbook at next login. Is there a way to prevent this from happening? I don't want users who register with facebook to be forced to use their full real name in the forums as their display name.

Thanks for any help you can offer.
 
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10/30/2012 5:37 AM
 
Pingle


Joined: 8/8/2009
Posts: 937
Hi,

The DNN Forums module has now been retired (no more development) with Active Forums 5 (http://activeforums.codeplex.com/releases/view/95810) having recently been released to replace it, so we should be seeing development on AF.

There seem to be few options with regards to forums modules, the only other one that I know of (but never used) is YAF http://yafnet.codeplex.com/

I can't help with the Facebook issue.
 
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10/30/2012 6:04 AM
 
Pingle


Joined: 8/8/2009
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That link to YAF should have been http://dnnyafnet.codeplex.com/ Not sure that it runs under DNN 6.x.
 
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10/30/2012 3:52 PM
 
onalaska98


Joined: 10/23/2012
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Pingle wrote:
Hi,

The DNN Forums module has now been retired (no more development) with Active Forums 5 (http://activeforums.codeplex.com/releases/view/95810) having recently been released to replace it, so we should be seeing development on AF.

There seem to be few options with regards to forums modules, the only other one that I know of (but never used) is YAF http://yafnet.codeplex.com/

I can't help with the Facebook issue.

Thanks Pingle, I appreciate the feedback! I will continue forward with the active forums extension. I wish I was a developer so I could contribute more to the coding of the active forums project, it just seems to be so far behind phpbb. If I can get the facebook login issue resolved I think I may be able to use DNN for my site but at this point it seems like a very basic thing just isn't working properly so we'll see...

Thanks again!
 
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10/31/2012 3:28 AM
 
Pingle


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You're welcome!
 
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