Tutorial : Drupal Forums - Drupal Basics

Drupal's core module "Forum" is basic.  It uses the node and comment system to allow for conversations but not much more.  The look and feel isn't like other forums like vBulletin or phpBB and users may have some difficulty getting used to the interface, particularly if  your participants have used other forum systems in the past.  There are, however, a plethora of contributed modules that can help improve the user experience. 

How to Make a Drupal Forum

Drupal's built-in forums are not ideal in all situations, but they make it easy to add a quick forum to your Drupal site.

phpBBforum Integration module released

We are pleased to announce that after a three months of heavy development the new phpBBforum Integration module has been released!

phpBBforum Integration module provides integration with phpBB3 Forum http://www.phpbb.com/.
The project page on a official Drupal site is http://drupal.org/project/phpbbforum.

Tips : Private forums in Drupal - Forum Access vs. Taxonomy Access vs. Taxonomy Access Control Lite

"Most people who use forum systems such as vBulletin or PHPBB are used to having lots of extra features that Drupal core's forums don't contain by default, including private messages, smilies, and BBcode. While all of those are available as contributed modules, there are two "must-have" forum features that are a bit trickier, since they deal with access control: private forums, and forum moderators."

• This topic is for Drupal versions 4.6, 4.7, and 5.x, although some menu paths will be slightly different for pre-5.x versions. 

  The purpose of this page is to:

  • List the options for setting up private forums.
  • Describe one method to set up private forums.