[Phpwiki-talk] Trouble Tickets, Wiki, groupware and nuke....

[Seth C. <se...@eu...>]

Ah ha, and here I was going to post a suggestion already....

I am getting ahold of a PHPwiki 'port' that works with PHPNuke/PostNuke.
I should have a copy of the code in a few days.  The author hasn't cleaned
it up, but he says it works. This would allow the use of a wiki module with
a Slashdot-ish environment.
This would fit some people's need for a more structured webspace, but still
have wiki elements.

I am also working with PHPgroupware, which is amazingly good with a firm
API.
PHPGroupware has trouble tickets, and much much more.  PHPGW is fast
becoming popular, and I for one, will be using it in a great many business
environments.

To port PHPWiki into a PHPGroupware module seems to make a great deal of
sense.
With Jeff's hack, a simple plugin would allow links back and forth I'd
suspect, with a minimum of problems or coding needed.  A PHPGroupware API
plugin would give all of the features of PHPgroupware to PHPWiki. (imagine
embedding a calendar or todo list).

This might also solve the user auth issues we are talking about.

Joe, if you are interested in, I suspect making PHPWiki into a PHPgroupware
module would give you troubletickets without having to recode a complete
trouble ticket system from scratch, and also all sorts of other possiblities
with the same codebase.  In other words, you'd be adding _far_ more than
troubletickets with less work.

I suspect we could find people on the other side of the coin, PHPGW coders
who would be interested in helping on this too.

links:
http://www.phpgroupware.org

also
http://www.phpnuke.com
http://www.postnuke.org


> On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Joe Edelman wrote:
>
> > Hello.  I'm a new person interested in hacking on phpWiki.
> >
> > I have a bit of an agenda, though:  I want to use it as an intranet for
a
> > non-profit I'm putting together, so I want to add some business/intranet
> > features.
> >
> > The only thing I want to add that's not already on your 1.3 to-do list
is a
> > ticket tracking system.  I'd like to be able to embed tickets in wiki
pages,
> > using a syntax like "((finance:approve))", and then have them visible
from a
> > ticket tracking system.  This could be seen as an extension of what
you're
> > already doing with search and "CategoryCategory" tags:  a new mechanism
for
> > letting people list and sort pages by certain criteria.
> >
> > I'm also interested in and willing to help with user authentication and
the
> > weblog/templating facility you describe.
> >
> > It seems like I can do these tickets using this new plugin system that
Jeff
> > has made, although it needs to be extended in a small way.
> >
> > I'm not quite sure how to proceed:  can I assume that Jeff's changes
will
> > probably become the HEAD?  Should I write a proposal about how I might
> > implement these tickets, then, and post it to the mailing list fpr
review?
> >
> > Thanks, and thanks for putting this project and this software together--
> > it's something to be proud of.
> >