Advanced Forum

Advanced forum is a glue/theme module which makes it easier for non programmers to put together a forum similar to popular forum packages using Drupal's core forum. It requres the forum module.

Installation
- Copy the entire advanced_forum project directory (not just the contents) to your normal module directory (ie: sites/all/modules)
- [Drupal 5.x only] In the themes directory of the module is a directory called "advforum" that contains all the theme files. Copy this entire advforum directory (not just the contents) to your theme's directory. If you use more than one theme with forums, copy it to each theme's directory. "advforum" should become a subdirectory in your theme.
- Enable the advanced forum module at ?q=admin/build/modules
- [Drupal 5.x only] Add this code to the top of _phptemplate_variables in template.php in your theme and make sure you are returning $vars, not array() at the end:
              if (module_exists('advanced_forum')) {
          $vars = advanced_forum_addvars($hook, $vars);
        }
      ?>  This assumes a basic knowledge of PHP to be able to do any merging necessary. If you don't know how to do this, see this tutorial for adding things to _phptemplate_variables.
- Visit the Advanced Forum settings page at ?q=admin/settings/advanced-forum
Advanced forum theme directory: You only need to change this if you have your advanced forum theme files in a different directory.
Treat all site comments like forum comments: If you would like advanced forum to take over the theming of all comments, even those outside the forum, choose yes here.