[Phpwiki-talk] PHPGW plugin

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

> 3. Seth Cohn writes that phpGroupWare has a nice ticket tracking system.
>    It does.  But phpGroupWare is *big* and one of the nicest things about
>    phpWiki is that it's still pretty simple and small.  So here's what I
>    will do: I will create a small, one page ticket tracker that can be
>    distributed with phpWiki and that uses its own database table, but I
>    will also include glue so that phpWiki can optionally call out to the
>    PHPGW API instead, so that if you already happen to be using PHPGW,
>    phpWiki will register tickets in it.  I've looked at the API, and this
>    shouldn't be too hard.

very cool.

I agree with the others, that just for a ticket tracker, WikiBadges would
work,
on a small scale.

The nice thing about doing a PHPGW plugin would be the multiple uses.
With a consistent API, adding ToDos, Calendar, Tickets, and dozens of other
features
would be easy.  For instance, let's say a cool module for PHPGW comes out
that does
double entry accounting.  Instead of Wiki having to add a new plugin, the
existing
plugin just passes the right API commands, and bingo, you get a nice Ledger
page
in the Wiki, right in your discussion of whatever the ledger is about.

>    I'm not, however, going to do the work to "embed" phpWiki into a PHPGW
>    module.  I have little interest in forcing the wiki into an even
smaller
>    box on my browser window, surrounded by even more buttons and menus.

No, I am not suggesting that.  The beauty of the plugin is that you could
have some users
using a standalone wiki, and it would handle the PHPGW stuff itself.

Speaking of modules, I have the PHPWiki module for Php/PostNuke running.  It
IS embedded into the Nuke, and it looks great.  The author, Olle Johansson,
is looking into making a few changes based on feedback from myself and Andy
Burham, including porting the code to 1.3 (it's 1.1.8 right now).  Between
plugins and RSS, it should be possible to make the Wiki work really well
with Nuke...

Seth