There was a discussion on cf-talk today about message boards in coldfusion versus phpbb, easily the world's most popular message board application.

I suggested that if I ever started working on a bulletin board solution again (like I was with cfmbb), I'd probably start with Ray Camden's Galleon Forums, and then I'd add the following two features:

• Private Messaging
• BBML Support

Ray is not a fan of BBML / Smilies, but he said if I wrote it, he'd implement it.

So I did.

My implementation is based on Galleon 1.5 which I downloaded a week or so ago.  The changes are pretty innocuous, and you can download them here:

Here's an example thread with all the BBML in use, along with a description of the changes made is here:

I've also submitted these changes to Ray for inclusion in the main Galleon project.

Now eventually, I may dig into Galleon and add some of the other features that I want to see, like private messaging, avatars, and signatures.