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This post is for people who use or are thinking of using Advanced Forum and/or Advanced Profile Kit. It contains important information to navigate the version mess I have going on right now.

There are a lot of modules that make up a forum in Drupal. Advanced Forum attempts to make it easier for users by allowing many of those modules to have their stuff show up in the author section of the forum posts. It does this by making use of the preprocess system built into core of Drupal 6 (and backported into Drupal 5). For those not familiar with the preprocess system, it's a wonderful thing. For any template file on your site, any module out there can add variables to it just by implementing the preprocess hook. In this case, I'm dealing with the "author pane" template which is used by both Advanced Forum and Advanced Profile Kit. So all those modules out there only need to implement one preprocess hook and, viola, both modules get their goods.

Advanced Forum Alpha 12 has been released. I jumped ahead the D6 numbering so I'm using one number on both branches. Not only is it easier for me to refer to one number but it makes more sense as the module is at the same point in development on both branches and is being developed in parallel. read more

Issue queues are great for keeping track of individual issues but I find it handy to summarize everything into one document to be able to see the big picture. This post will, of course, get out of date quickly, but I'll revise it from time to time. The current revision was done on August 10, 2008. D5 bugs: D6 bugs: read more