JojoLinkyBob has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

My friends and I are about to collaborate on a small gaming project, and I was wondering if anyone had any good recommendations for a nice web-based project management tool.

Here's a list of features I'm looking for:

  • Perl Based (althought PHP is fine too)
  • Free (or cheap)
  • Doesn't use MySQL, otherwise I'll have to pay my web host $5/mo extra :(
  • Forum support (with multiple categories)
  • File uploads/download capability (for builds)
  • Photos (for screenshots)
  • Easy to setup, manage, and tweak
  • Secure (allows login/password)

    • So far, I've only looked at SlashCode and PHPNuke. They look really nice, however they're more focused on news, and probably many whistles and bells I wouldn't use. At the moment, I'm using Yahoo! Groups which is a great service, although having better forum support (and less ads) would be nice.

    Thanx in advance!

    =~Desertcoder

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    Re: Free or cheap web-based project managment tool (Perl/PHP)?
    by fuzzyping (Chaplain) on Mar 17, 2002 at 06:11 UTC
      Actually, a fellow monk and good friend of mine, oubiwann, has started a new project at Sourceforge called PerlWebSite. It's a "web site content management system based loosely on phpWebSite and inspired in part by bugzilla. Using a DBI::CSV backend, this is just the thing that people need when they cannot run PHP or MySQL on an ISP."

      Granted, it's still in alpha/pre-release stage right now, but he's making great progress. It also uses CGI caching, so it should be sprightly as well. ;-)

      -fuzzyping
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        Thx, I'll check it out. =~Desertcoder
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    Re: Free or cheap web-based project managment tool (Perl/PHP)?
    by theguvnor (Chaplain) on Mar 16, 2002 at 19:28 UTC
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        Yeah, I saw that, to my understanding it's for opensource project only (we're probably going to try and make something commercial)...another thing is I don't believe you can make a sourcefourge project private. I hope I'm wrong on both accounts... =~Desertcoder
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          Sourcefourge is a resource as well as a tool. In otherwords, you could look on SourceFourge for a tool to do project management. A quick search revealed several PHP and Perl based tools (although some required MySQL). Perhaps this is what you need?

          Cheers,
          Erik
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