Nojan Moshiri - 2005-11-04

Hi, I'd like to thank you for all your hard work on this project.  I'd further like to encourage you to accept donations or to post a link to your wish list or something so that people that find this useful can pay you back somehow.

My group needed a basic inventory system to track critical information and we wanted it to be PHP/MySQL based and your project seemed to fit the bill exactly. In fact, your system goes beyond a "basic" inventory system by quite a bit.

In about one week I've been able to take this project and make it fit our needs exactly.  You have done a fine job with creating a highly extensible system here and it's incredibly flexible with a GUI that makes just the right use of frames, javascript and icons. 

Your use of templates to build languages and so forth splits the presentation layer from the app logic to a great degree (although one could always hope for more of this).  Overall, I've found no major bugs with the code.
Further, your use of debug code to present queries has been extremely useful in extending the functionality.

My group needed several other Asset Classes and the "computer" class didn't fit our bill exactly.  Within a few hours I was able to add two more classes (platform.php and mobile.php.. and the associated lang.platform.php and lang.mobile.php), link them to my own tables and extend inventory for our exact needs.  Although we now have a branch of your application that's fairly unique on its own, I find that the current version of Inventory has provided a perfectly good base to branch from. 

As I've added the new tables and new classes and followed your conventions around having tags defined in the language templates, I'm curious as to how you came about to program in this specific style as it's very well laid out.

In any case, thanks once again for such a great project and for making it GPL.   Although our use is purely for our small group and I doubt anyone would find this branch particularly useful, I'd be glad to share the changes.  This is one of the few projects I've ever seen where it's actually very clear to understand the app flow and logic.

Thanks again