Quick question for Galleon users

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Posted in | Posted on 08-20-2010 | 2,789 views

Do you use Galleon? If so - would you be interested if added localization support like BlogCFC? Secondly - I'd also just love to hear about where/how you use Galleon - so consider this a request for two things: 1) Where you use Galleon and 2) would localization be something you would like.

I'll point out - BlogCFC only supports English directly. If you want to localize to your language you have to edit the resource bundle file. So it still involves translation work for you - but it's not coding.

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David Pienta said on 08-20-2010 at 7:54 AM #
	My buddy rewrote Galleon so that it will work without cfobject (thanks GoDaddy)... and I am setting it up to work on my site, www.bbfoa.org for officials to discuss a variety of issues.

Shaun McCran said on 08-20-2010 at 8:13 AM #
	I'm in the process of embedding it in a comic site, I'm not sure that localisation would be a massive benefit, but it was very easy to re style to match the rest of the framework.

Raymond Camden said on 08-20-2010 at 8:17 AM #
	Can I ask - what comic site?

James Edmunds said on 08-20-2010 at 8:56 AM #
	I am about to utilize Galleon on a project, but it will require that all posts be held "in escrow" and not appear live until approved by an administrator. If I find an easy, compact way of doing that I will share with you what I did for what value it may have. On the other hand, if you are right on the brink of adding this capability yourself, and your code is almost baked...

Raymond Camden said on 08-20-2010 at 8:58 AM #
	@James: Nope, no plans for it. I know you've mentioned it to me before. I can definitely see a need for it. Galleon definitely has easy ways to edit messages and set up users to be moderators, but it is always _post_ publication.

Mel Williams said on 08-20-2010 at 9:13 AM #
	We use the forum for our D&D group. It's good for the group to communicate if a scheduling conflict is coming up, snacks to bring, campaign notes, funny links, just whatever.

garence said on 08-20-2010 at 10:10 AM #

I am about to launch Galleon for a K-8 school. For a number of years, the school created a paper newsletter to share information with parents that was distributed via backpack express. A few years ago, a "blog" replaced the newsletter, and it was quasi-transformed into more a of a message board/forum anyway, so migrating to a product like Galleon seemed a natural fit. As for localization ... we may not have a direct need for such a feature, but ... we do have some parents whose native language is not english, they may find it helpful.

Mark said on 08-20-2010 at 12:06 PM #
	Using it as a FAQ / Help Forum for our platforms. Localization might be nice, but if a customer was responding in a different language, I can only respond in English so its not of major benefit to me.

Dan Fredericks said on 08-23-2010 at 6:40 AM #
	I used Galleon to build a document review and comment system for a government agency. It was a big time saver. They have talked about upgrading some of the code i added so they can use the system for other departments, but I have not heard anything back. For me, localization would not be good, but I can see it being helpful if Galleon is being downloaded by people from other countries.

WebmasterAlex said on 08-24-2010 at 10:34 PM #

Recently had to throw together a forum of sort for a hobby site. Content posted on the site is in several languages; e.g Russian, Polish and some Japanese.

Running a base install of Galleon was pretty quick till I run into a problem of Question Marks(?????????) for the data being inputted by forums visitors.

The site runs on MySQL and the Solution was to Drop a DB(Not a biggie), Recreate it with Default CHARSet of UTF8, replace CHARSET=latin1 with CHARSET=UTF8 in DB Creation Script(run the script) and add a connection string for the CF Data Source(CFAdmin) as in: jdbc:mysql://SERVERNAME:3306/DBNAME?characterEncoding=UTF8&characterSetResults=UTF8

Alex

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