PHProjekt 6 - Developers Blog

Tags on PHProjekt 6

There is a new web2.0 feature on PHProjekt6, The Tagging system.

Each user can tag their items like todos, projects, notes, etc.

When you see one item, a list of all of your tags are displayed.
You can click on one tag for see other items tagging with these tag.
So is easy to categorize many items, from different modules, together.

As the normal tagging system, the list of tags are differenced displaying the most popular tag, bigger than the others.

When you edit the item, you will have a text field for add the tags separated by spaces.

What's new, part 2: New Features for developers

While part one of What's new was dedicated to users, part two will give you a short overview what developer can expect from PHProjekt 6.

As a result of the long-lived, procedural and hard to mantainable code from earlier PHProjekt versions, we especially had developers in mind when creating the initial architecture of PHProjekt 6 last year. Thus, PHProjekt is based on well-known technologies including Zend Framework and Dojo. PHProjekt 6.0 is implemented using an model, view, controller architecture, with PHP in the backend and a rich-client frontend based on dojo, giving you a much easier to use interface. And for sure it's PHP5.

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What's new, part 1: New Features for users

Of course one of the most interesting questions for the users is: what can be expected from PHProjekt 6?
Beside the technical aspects which will be treated later, here are some hints which will be different from the current edition:

PHProjekt will focus more on project management
Due to the dojo-client, the usage of the frontend will be fun
Key features like the filter system or the contextmenu handling will be kept in the new version
Addons and modules will be treated in the same way - and the management of new modules will be done very easily
New web2.0 features like tagging, live Search and Ajax will be introduced
In the first version we will skip comunity modules like the votes, chat or forum
The group system will be expanded - each project can manage several members with different roles

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Announcing PHProjekt 6

After seven years of PHProjekt, we are proud to announce a complete new version of this Open Source software.
PHProjekt is still pretty popular, but the source code is outdated and maintenance gets more timeconsuming with each update.

So the core development team decided to rewrite the application and to build a new software.
Don't worry: It's still LAMP! But we take the chance and turn to state-of-the-art programming with test-driven development,
modern PHP 5 object oriented coding style and the strategic usage of frameworks like the Zend Framework and the Dojo javascript toolkit.
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