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I've been working on some web apps which "integrate" with RE for the past few months. Primarily they extend the relationship abilities of RE so that we can do a more highly refined relationship mapping. The apps are written in PHP and run on our intranet, completely independent of RE. Since I had no experience with VBA to begin with I just wrote the apps to interact directly with the SQL server instance (read only) but now that the apps are getting more complex I would like a tighter integration with RE. So I have been looking into the API and the VBA interface.
Long-story short, is there anyone out there with experience doing PHP integration with RE. I would love to hear some advice on accessing the libraries through RE. Is this impossible without delving into VB/VBA? I don't mind learning a new language if thats what I need but would love to retain as much of the work I've done as possible.
I haven't dived into how RE uses VBA for scripting duties (but will when I have time), but I have lots of experience with both PHP web app development AND VBA (MS Access). Maybe it's worth some further dialog to share ideas.
Would either of you be interested in looking at this along with the concept of starting an opensource RE plugin project as part of Blackbus?
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On 9/28/07, mwittman wrote: Hi, ttavenner.
I haven't dived into how RE uses VBA for scripting duties (but will when I have time), but I have lots of experience with both PHP web app development AND VBA (MS Access). Maybe it's worth some further dialog to share ideas.
I'm a big fan of Open Source development and I'd be glad to contribute what I can. I'd certainly be a great way to get my hands dirty on the API/Plugin side of things.
We need to find some kind of tool like SourceForge that we can host here to allow us to collaborate on projects. My preference would lean towards tools built for Joomla (eg. Project Fork) or vBulletin (eg. vBulletin Project Tools) because of the site integration.
Any thoughts are appreciated
__________________ Peter Gulka
Chief Bus Driver
Blackbaud User Society www.blackbus.org
We need to find some kind of tool like SourceForge that we can host here to allow us to collaborate on projects. My preference would lean towards tools built for Joomla (eg. Project Fork) or vBulletin (eg. vBulletin Project Tools) because of the site integration.
Any thoughts are appreciated
Ironically, there is a dearth of Joomla extensions built for programming. We may be out of luck for Joomla integration considering that Joomla's own Forge runs on a commercial collaboration software. I'm not as familiar with vBulletin but a quick Google search doesn't turn up anything immediate neither does a quick search of the vBulletin forums.
Perhaps this is the first project, though it falls far outside of the RE spectrum.
Have a peek at FlySpray... I installed it at www.blackbus.org/flyspray. You can login with your Blackbus account and browse around. It integrates with Joomla, and appears to fit our basic needs.
Thoughts
__________________ Peter Gulka
Chief Bus Driver
Blackbaud User Society www.blackbus.org
Have a peek at FlySpray... I installed it at www.blackbus.org/flyspray. You can login with your Blackbus account and browse around. It integrates with Joomla, and appears to fit our basic needs.
Thoughts
It looks like it has potential. I was also playing around with the demo at the FlySpray website. The one thing I couldn't tell from either installation was if this program manages files as well or if it is primarily a task manager. Either way it looks good, we can always use one of Joomla's systems (like Docman) to manage changes. There also appear to be several extensions that just do version control.
Another option is to go outside the site with an implementation of GForge, the open source version of what joomlacode.org uses. I can host that, but the installation is way over my head.
__________________ Peter Gulka
Chief Bus Driver
Blackbaud User Society www.blackbus.org
Another option is to go outside the site with an implementation of GForge, the open source version of what joomlacode.org uses. I can host that, but the installation is way over my head.
I would be happy to help with the installation if I can. I am downloading the express version now to see what is involved. Being that it is GPL'd and PHP based it may be possible to create a plugin for or integrate it with either Joomla! or vB.
A quick look at GForge shows that it is not really PHP based. It uses PHP on top of (I guess) pre-compiled binary. The instalaltion does look difficult and not really "platform independent" as the website says.
