#question answerer

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Module seeking maintainer. After some years of having fun while keeping this module up to date, I'm falling farther and farther behind. Interested in maintaining/advancing this module?

Overview

Answers provides a question answer service. Users can post questions and other users can answer them.

New version now available for testing (7.x-4.0-rc2)

Please note: this version is not compatible with prior versions.

The most important changes include:

1. Replaces the references module with entityreference (references was at one point likely to be deprecated)
2. Integrates supporting modules into this module (Best Answer, etc. )
3. Improves the interface including better layout and putting comment forms and new answers form on question pages
4. Improves code quality

Some functionality from 7.x-3.x has not yet been ported, in particular the ability to search for questions and also adding questions asked/answers to user profiles.

Thanks in particular to hefox, hussainweb, and bulat for contributions on this over the past year.

Summary of Functionality

What the module does:

• Users can ask new questions
  • Directly ('node/add/question')
  • After searching for similar questions ('questions/start_ask')
• Users can review questions
  • All questions: 'questions/all'
  • Unanswered questions: 'questions/unanswered'
  • Search for questions: 'questions/search'
• When viewing lists of questions, users can sort by title, post date, and number of answers
• Users can post answers to questions
• When displaying a question, the system shows the answers to that question.

The displays are based on standard CCK node displays and Views, so can be themed in the typical ways.

For more detail and configuration options, see the file "answers.readme.txt" in the module.

Supporting Modules

• Best Answer: Enables question authors to select a best answer. Depending on a setting, this will lock the question
• Answers Userpoints: Adds user reputations to Answers (using integration with UserPoints ) following a point system like that on StackExchange
• Expire Questions: Automatically expire questions after a set amount of time has past
• Relevant Answers: Provide blocks which can be placed on pages to capture and display questions specific to each page