Using the PCI Forums

The PCI Forums uses the open source Galleon Forums project. The public facing part of Galleon is rather simple. Users are presented with a selection of conferences, forums, and threads. Users do not need to register or log on to browse the messages. They do need to register or logon to create a new thread or respond to existing threads.

Another option users have is to receive notifications. This option can be set by clicking the Profile link. Once turned on, if a message is posted to a thread that the user has posted to, the user will get an email informing them of the new message.

The search engine allows users to search not only messages but conferences, forums, and threads. This is useful for larger sites that may have numerous forums. Users have the choice of doing a phrase, any, or all search. A phrase search will do an exact match. So a search for "Red Rum" will only match Red Rum. An "any" search would match any instance of "Red" or "Rum." An "all" search would only match content that has both "Red" and "Rum."

RSS Feeds

RSS feeds are automatically created for conferences. Each conference has a unique RSS feed. You can find this by clicking on the RSS link after you have selected a conference. The feed contains the last twenty posts to any thread in any forum in the conference.