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Myself (Kyle Putnam) and Lorne Chi have decided to work together on the project and his project's named SchoolWEB. We have an overlapping set of goals, and wish to extend each other's projects. The name "OSSW" is likely going to be changed to something pronouncable.

The MySQL database layer has been tested and works on SourceForge so eventually the project's website will be functioning at http://ossw.sourceforge.net/ with a working test site.

I know I said I'd release a version of OSSW with the database library that has been redesigned, and works... but! I am busy designing the schema of the database. Right now I feel it will be extremely scalable to all sorts of different school districts and setups.

Work is being primarily done on PostgreSQL, but the mySQL database isn't far out of sync. I'm not sure when I will release a new version, but probably a while from now because I want to get as much as I can to work.... to have something presentable.... read more

Well after an enjoyable summer, (one which not much coding was done on OSSW ;) I have slowly finished developing the database library. I'll be posting it shortly as ossw-0.0.5.

With school starting, you can expect I'll be working more on the code (which seems backwards). If you are interested in using it, please email me (kputnam@users.sourceforge.net) and tell me about your school. I don't want this to become a project that only works with schools that are setup like mine :)

There's a new version of OSSW in the CVS, go get it! I'm having trouble getting Lynx to upload my tarballs from the QRS page, so for now it'll be mostly CVS. It's probably not ready for release tarballs anyway.. to buggy and new

Now that I've successfully put off this project for a decent amount of time, work is finally starting again. I spent a considerable amount of my time playing around with Linux, and setting up my home server. I also rewrote the database library (again), and it's now based on SourceForge's own database libraries. The driver is more seamless between different databases, so once I get enough code working, I wont have to worry about running PostgreSQL at home and MySQL on SourceForge.... read more

I have taken my Linux server home to develop on. Before it was at the school, and I was juggling my development between many Windows boxes and my one Linux box. I will probably switch to using Linux primarily now.

From Thursday to Sunday I haven't been working on the project or responding to email for personal reasons. Starting Monday I am hoping to get the project less dependant on my configuration settings. That means all of you that wanted to see how the project is coming will be able to just download the latest release and run the installation script. I might include a sample database. Afterward I will be working on a template system.

The new release has significantly more functionality but is still not ready for use. You may get it at http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=32279

I fixed some bad behavior and also changed dump_row and dump_array to store the results as $results[field_name] instead of $results[field_number]. This lets you use the name of the field in the query instead of what number field it was (which I found to be dumb).

I've decided to make the database queries and results a LOT easier to call. I'm going to release the changes in the next version and explain better in the ChangeLog