Interested folks should look at PHPCollab (demo at http://www.phpcollab.com/product), wonderfully usable groupware for project management. I'd love for someone to mimic this functionality and design in Drupal.

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Stefan Nagtegaal’s picture

Jeeeeezzzzzzz,

this absolutely ROCKS!!! =)

Gunnar Langemark’s picture

Title: PPCollab - group project module » Re: [drupal-devel] feature #1625 : PPCollab - group project module

PhpCollab sure has some good things going for it. Compared to PHProjekt it
is a better design.
I do think however, that project management/groupware should be thought
through in ways that utilize the special strenghts of Drupal if Drupal
should try and go after groupware in that special sense.
Think about it. We have a real taxonomy system in Drupal which would
absolutely rock when put to use with a project. Time, resources and
hierarchy - there you have your project. A good calendaring system is
needed, but I think that you had some thoughts about that too.

I know I made some comments about Drupal and e-learning. I really mean that
Drupals success is due to a slim design and a superior category handling.
Now that it seems we're getting wysiwyg editing, liberate the visual design
in easily accessible way and get layered menus?, it is understandable that
thoughts about what next kicks in.

I'm quite sure you guys could do what-ever you put your mind to, but don't
let the focus slip!

Gunnar

al’s picture

Title: Re: [drupal-devel] feature #1625 : PPCollab - group project module » PPCollab - group project module
kika’s picture

Component: contrib/modules » Modules

Moved to a "Contributions" project

moshe weitzman’s picture

Title: PPCollab - group project module » PHPCollab - group project module
Component: Modules » modules
Kjartan’s picture

Project: Project » Drupal core
Component: modules » base system
Boris Mann _Old Blogger.com Account_’s picture

Yes, phpcollab is a great product. We use it at my company to handle project management, include time tracking and billing/invoicing.

However, the way it handles sessions is incompatible with the way Drupal does. I found this out the hard way -- I have phpcollab in a sub-directory underneath our Drupal site, and Drupal's .htaccess file breaks phpcollab. So, this needs to be added to an .htaccess file in the phpcollab directory:

php_value session.save_handler    files

I think it would be a lot of work to integrate the two code bases, time that is probably better spent developing Drupal's project module. Drupal will never be a project management tool -- if you need those functions, use phpcollab. We happily use both.

bkessels’s picture

And what about phprojekt (http://www.phprojekt.org/)
will this be easier? It has almost the same features as PHPcollab has.
Anyone tried to integrate it?

Ber

Gunnar Langemark’s picture

There's even "moregroupware"

Gunnar - unlurking for a moment.

Boris Mann _Old Blogger.com Account_’s picture

Priority: Normal » Minor

I have actively trialed all three systems (moregroupware, phprojekt, and phpcollab). Of those three, phpcollab has the best functionality (focused solely on project management, and does it well), is the most stable (everything works in every one of the stable releases), and -- by far -- the best code.

If I had to rank them, I would say 1 - phpcollab, 2 - moregroupware, and a distant, distant 3 - phprojekt.

Again, I'm convinced that focusing on Drupal's strengths (i.e. node-based content) is the key *IF* you want a system that runs on Drupal. The only type of integration that I would see as useful would be a shared user base, so you don't have to manage two sets of users. phpcollab has integration with xoops for this, so if people were interested, that would be where to look for as a starting point.

moshe weitzman’s picture

Gurpartap Singh’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (fixed)
sanjaybadami’s picture

Version: » 7.14
Priority: Minor » Major
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

Is there a version of PHPCollab which can be installed on Drupal 7.x?

mohankiran’s picture

Hi All,
How to integrate PHPCollab like other projects in drupal? any pointers? please revert if anyone done the same.

marcingy’s picture

Category: feature » support

This is 6 year old issue and the re-opening people are asking support requests.

cweagans’s picture

Priority: Major » Normal

Support requests are neither major nor critical.

mohankiran’s picture

Hi,
I integrated PHPCollab like some more applications also into my project, which was built in drupal7. Now I want single sign-on for all applications, can any one suggest a good module which helps to my requirement?

All other applications are built in different PHP frameworks like symfony, ZEND and smarty template engine etc.,

cweagans’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Closing issue again, and locking comments.