Buddylist, Buddlist2, Friendlist
Dear LazyWeb
Buddylist is aimed at Drupal 5, so when porting to a site to Drupal 6, you need Buddylist2. However the BuddyList page mentions one should look at FriendList as that project is supposed finished ..
At first sight it seems like FriendList indeed most advanced in its efforts
As I was also using Invite, which also is still under development for 6,
I was assuming that upon installing it the dependencies would tell me which one to use.. however it seems none of them already hooks into Invite
Am I overlooking a module that solves my needs . ?
Comments
#1 Sean : There's a comparison of User
There's a comparison of User Relationship and Friendslist at http://groups.drupal.org/node/14625
I'm updating it at the moment.
#2 Gerard : Following on from Greggles'
Following on from Greggles' comment about duplicated modules, isn't it about time there was discussion about converging these modules and creating a single, flexible 'Friend' module?
At least we could depend on future support of that module - as Wim says above, the Buddylist2 module doesn't support the Invite API - having a single module would take the guesswork out of choosing the right module.
#3 William : FriendList
I'm currently using FriendList. I found it much more approachable than UR, and easier to get data out using Views.
#4 greggles : best place to research/record stuff like this
http://groups.drupal.org/duplicated-modules-hall-shame
It's awesome.
#5 Michelle : User relationships
Put me down for another one suggesting user relationships. Flag friend lookes like a good option for a very simple buddylist replacement but UR is more full featured and integrates with more modules.
Michelle
#6 Wim Mostrey : As you can see on the invite
As you can see on the invite module project that currently the Buddylist and User Relationships modules support the Invite API. So neither Buddylist2 or FriendList are currently supporting it. You might want to open a feature request on either the Invite module or Buddylist2/FriendList for this.
#7 Kris Buytaert : Only invite support in Drupal 5
According to the site there is only invite support for Drupal 5..
* User Relationship Invites (5.x only) requires the Invite module and allows users to specify a relationship to a user that they invite to join the site.
#8 Anonymous : Finding Friends
I am also looking at some options for a "friend" system. There is one that is now defunct http://drupalmodules.com/forum/post/3286, but had some really nice features... I used it on a development site at is was really smooth.
I am now looking into Flag Friend http://drupal.org/project/flag_friend as a lightweight solution, partly because it's one of Nate's modules and he does some great work so I have extremely high confidence in the module itself.
#9 toemaz : user relationship
To make it even more difficult to choose, there is also the user relationships module: http://drupal.org/project/user_relationships It has support for Invite module, but for 5 only.
#10 Anonymous : Also consider User Relationships
http://drupal.org/project/user_relationships
It's a pretty complex module but it does all the relationship/friend/buddy type of stuff that you would come to expect and in my opinion is a bit more polished than the others at this stage.
#11 Jonathan Brown : user_relationships is also
user_relationships is also very good. I wrote the access control module for it