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PHProjekt 6 Developer Preview edition

Tuesday, December 16. 2008

PHProjekt 6 Developer Preview edition

Today the PHProjekt core team is glad to publish a first edition of PHProjekt 6, the 'developer preview release'! More than one year has passed since the first commit into the SVN. In our view, the most important feature of the new version is the state-of-the-art architecture, which makes a huge difference to all previous versions of PHProjekt.

With the choice of Zend framework in the backend and a complete integration of the dojo toolkit for the frontend, we think that the application is now ready for complex requirements and workflow processes. The MVC and active record pattern support scaffolding, thus allowing an effective and rapid development for new modules and features - in fact, new modules can be built with some mouse clicks.

Furthermore we tried to provide you a software, which makes fun to develop own code.
PHProjekt 6:
- is completely OOP, well structured
- follows php5 coding standards (actually zf coding style)
- has a pretty good code coverage with unit tests
- is completely documented in phpdoc
By following 'convention over configuration', many modules and services show an expected default behaviour. The API and protocol (JSON) between frontend and backend allows a change of single components of the application.

For other webmasters without coding skills, we tried to facilitate the application management with a WYSIWYG module designer.
Last but not least, we changed the licence from GPL to LGPL to give you more flexibility for the distribution of your own modules and extensions.

Lots of changes have been made over the past months by the developer team so we are really looking forward to get feedback from the community.
You can download the developer preview release here. We reopened the phprojekt repository on sourceforge, so you can checkout the source code from SVN there.
On phprojekt.com, we opened a new section for PHProjekt 6, which we will fill with content in the next weeks. You can leave general remarks as a comment on this blog entry. For questions and discussions, we installed an own developer mailing list, you can subscribe here. Anyone of you who want to inspect it directly, we have a setup a sandbox (login: english/test).
Please keep in mind, that it is only a preview, which means that something weird can frequently happen :-)
Please post your opinion, report bugs or send patches, everyone is welcome. We need you, the people who use it, your testing and reports, and your patches.

We wish you merry christmas ... sorry: a lot of fun with the preview of PHProjekt 6!
the PHProjekt development team
Posted by Albrecht Günther in Announcements at 14:12 | Comments (30) | Trackbacks (0)

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hi,

what arethe login and password for the sandbox?

also, how will the transition from the last stable to the v6 will be? will there be a "compatibility mode", sort of ?
#1 alexandre (Link) on 2008-12-16 18:06 (Reply)
Login is english/test.
and yes, we will offer a migration kit/update routine for important data.

Albrecht
#1.1 Albrecht on 2008-12-16 18:09 (Reply)
sorry, in the meanwhile i found the login via the main site.

1/ bravo for the updates, it looks promising.
2/ here at my work, we mainly use the calendar. I couldn't manage to get it working on the sandbox. i could only see the "add event" form, and i have a few comments, mainly on the UI:

make it easy to set up an event that has a start date and a end date.

recurring event is very rare. Make that part of the form available only if a checkbox has been checked, so as to reduces the form size and make it less daunting.

Notification: allow to choose which user/email should receive a notification.
#2 alexandre (Link) on 2008-12-16 18:29 (Reply)
Hi guys,

nice work. I have been choosing a project management sw for our company for quite long. I tested several projects and PHPproject6 is on the short list.

I reviewed about 20 open source and webbased services suitable for a company of about 20 people, about 1/3 IT people.

I would recommend to have a look at this project mgmt sw http://www.stuffedguys.com/products/factory/. I found it more or less by accident, but the user value seems very high. It is a paid sw, and they just stoped the support, so I do not do any advertising on their service, but the usability and task management structure is really great and worth to have a look for inspiration.
#3 Ludo on 2008-12-17 09:44 (Reply)
Hallo,
I have had a look at the sw you told about.
It looks very good as far as i can see in that short time. But I found the phprojekt offered here much more clearly arranged. I felt disturbed by the amount of data displayed. phpro seems to manage this more subtle and elegantly for my taste. Thank you anyway for the hint.
Thomas
#3.1 Thomas H on 2009-04-05 16:48 (Reply)
I get user inactive upon login with english/test to sandbox. Any idea ?

Hunter
#4 Hunter on 2008-12-17 11:32 (Reply)
It's working again.
#4.1 Albrecht on 2008-12-17 13:59 (Reply)
Hallo,

hat jemand ne idee wieso bei mir des net funzt:
Daten:

PHP 5.x.x + pdo_mysql
MYSQL 5
Apache 2
etc

krieg net HTTP500 Fehler habe schon alles probiert irgendwie brüht bei mir mein kopf heude net^^

Gruß
Dimitrij
#5 Dimitrij on 2008-12-17 16:40 (Reply)
Hi guys,

The new system looks really nice and promising. In particular the access/role system is much better than older versions.

Actually I'm missing the mail-system and adresses in the sandbox (sort of CRM). Are there any plans to implement it?

Don
#6 Don on 2008-12-22 17:24 (Reply)
contacts will be migrated, mails probably too - but we won't integrate a full mail client again.

Albrecht
#6.1 Albrecht on 2008-12-22 17:35 (Reply)
Hugh step beyond V5.x
I'm looking forward to the final release. Sure I will make use of it.
Great!
Thomas
#7 Thomas H. on 2008-12-23 21:42 (Reply)
I'm really excited about implementing this new version. Is there a road map or time table available as to when the version 6 is likely to be released as a stable version?
#8 Lee on 2008-12-24 15:18 (Reply)
Will a helpdesk workflow still be available in version 6? Very slick interface.

Regards

Rudolf
#9 Rudolf on 2008-12-25 15:11 (Reply)
When will the 6.0 be in a stable state? Is there a road map?

Thanks in advance. 5.3 is great, 6.0 looks awesome!

Keep up the good work.
Stephan
#10 Stephan Winter (Link) on 2009-01-07 00:20 (Reply)
sandbox (login: english/test). off line?
login off please new login on
#11 Francisco Cuevas (Link) on 2009-01-21 22:10 (Reply)
The Sandbox does not work with englisch/test :-(

What happend?
#12 Aso on 2009-01-22 00:10 (Reply)
I just tried-out the alpha-version. It looks really very unfinished and ugly - and not very 'state-of-the-art'...

hint: complete the INSTALL documentation and add information regarding username/password of the admin/test-user... i had to go through the auth-code in order to set a fresh password for the admin user aka "md5('phprojektmd5' + pass)"...
#13 IO on 2009-01-22 13:21 (Reply)
> Anyone of you who want to inspect it
> directly, we have a setup a sandbox
> (login: english/test).

This does not work.
#14 IO on 2009-01-22 13:24 (Reply)
The login does not work.
#15 Kofl on 2009-01-22 22:24 (Reply)
Any thoughts on this error I get when I try to visit the htdocs directory? (This is post install of course)

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Zend_Exception' with message 'File "Zend/Db/Adapter/Mysql.php" does not exist or class "Zend_Db_Adapter_Mysql" was not found in the file' in [root obscured]/library/Zend/Loader.php:88 Stack trace: #0 [root obscured]/library/Zend/Db.php(247): Zend_Loader::loadClass('Zend_Db_Adapter...') #1 [root obscured]/htdocs/index.php(66): Zend_Db::factory('mysql', Array) #2 {main} thrown in [root obscured]/library/Zend/Loader.php on line 88

I investigated a bit and realized that there shouldn't be a mysql.php in that folder of Zend. Any thoughts on why it may be looking there and what I should do to correct?
#16 Mike on 2009-01-27 21:49 (Reply)
hi,
I' tried to install Phprojekt6 and got the next Warning: require_once(Phprojekt/Loader.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/fbar/public_html/phprojekt6/htdocs/index.php on line 36

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'Phprojekt/Loader.php' (include_path='.:/home/fbar/public_html/phprojekt6/library:/home/fbar/public_html/phprojekt6/application:.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/fbar/public_html/phprojekt6/htdocs/index.php on line 36

It was the same for line 35 (Zend/Loader.php). I have modified the path in the index.php with the complete path (just to check it works), but I don't think this is the solution.

Sorry for my english,
and thank you,
CB
#17 criba on 2009-02-20 11:49 (Reply)
We really like the look and simplicity of projekt6. Downloaded the developer release but I notice there isn't a file manager module? Is that something that I can install?

thanks Richard
#18 richard hellyer on 2009-03-16 20:55 (Reply)
P6 will habe a file manager & migration path
#18.1 Albrecht on 2009-03-17 09:33 (Reply)
Hallo,
I've tried the sandbox anothertime and the progress is very promising! It's a huge step further from 5.x, which i have been using so far. I like to work with it just from the start!
I wondered, wether there is a link between the calendar and projects, so that special calendar events can be linked to one or more projects. Or what is the reason, that this is not planned?
Thank you for your work
Thomas
#19 Thomas H on 2009-04-05 16:33 (Reply)
a little help? Sandbox doesn't seem to work with english/test
#20 Shiki on 2009-04-15 06:39 (Reply)
As many other have asked, Is there a date we can expect a stable version of PHPProjekt 6?
#21 James Strutton (Link) on 2009-04-20 20:12 (Reply)
in Summer I hope :-)
Albrecht
#21.1 Albrecht Günther on 2009-04-21 08:46 (Reply)
Interesting,

Keep up the good work,

Thanks
#22 Software companies UK (Link) on 2009-11-17 10:34 (Reply)
Hi,

I have a problem after installation.
When I try to go on my groupware page I get following error:

Fatal error: Class 'Phprojekt_ActiveRecord_Abstract' not found in /phprojekt/library/Phprojekt/User/User.php on line 36

Does someone know whats up there? I'm a realy big noob on PHP :/
#23 Piit on 2009-11-20 14:53 (Reply)
Hi,
your PHP don't found the class Phprojekt_ActiveRecord_Abstract, located on library\Phprojekt\ActiveRecord.

Do you have this folder? maybe you omit these files for one reason.

If you have the folder, and the Abstract.php file, the, there is something wrong in your PHP paths / or P6 config paths.

Greetings.
#23.1 Gustavo Solt on 2009-11-23 16:08 (Reply)

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