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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One of my colleagues and I setup SF as a tool for our company about a year ago, primarily for the task and bug tracking. Maybe they have changed the setup procedures, documentation, etc. but it was a huge PITA to set up. The files with SQL DDL and DML were incomplete, the documentation was in places simply incorrect, and there were a number of places where they hardcoded image links back to sourceforge.net itself.
In addition, there are a number of features that simply don't work correctly. Searching is problematic: it's case-sensitive and only searches particular fields. For instance, you can't simply type in a bug ID and see the status of a bug. And, worst of all, in certain fields on different types of records you cannot use database-sensitive characters like a ('). It also stores datetime information in unix epoch format, which is incredibly annoying when you want to use a epoch-unaware tool like MS Access/Excel for reporting on the data.
(If this task were more than 2% of my job description I'd create a replacement for the features we need using OpenInteract.)
Many of these annoyances/bugs may have changed in successive versions, but I also know that features they add to the main sourceforge site are not finding their way back into the open source version.
Chris
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Good point. I'll start looking there.
=~Desertcoder
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