PHP Based Project Management System

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PHP Based Project Management System

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Does anyone have any recommendations of some free PHP based project management systems.

Currently we're looking at dotproject http://www.dotproject.net/demo/index.php anyone got any better recommendations?
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We used that one for a little while... but it never really felt that.... comfortable.
We're currently using Rally (http://www.rallydev.com/), but it's not free, or even downloadable at that.

...There just really aren't any good, free, php-based, project managment apps out there.
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I just found this Rails based one, not a final release yet.

http://www.redmine.org/projects/show/redmine
Wonder if it's any good.
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Why don't you consider using a hosted version like 37Signals, Zoho, etc?
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We used dotproject at work. I'd advise against it. The code is a disaster so anytime you actually need to
customize anything, its a mess.

We also used GForge. We had the paid for advanced server whatever thing, but I remember there being a freeish one as well. It's got a ton of stuff it it, unfortunately the interface is quite lacking. It's missing some quite required things, especially for people who manage multiple projects and have developers going between them. It took quite a bit of UI modification to make it even half usable, and then you're still stuck with it's performance issues. Also gforge will completely take over your svn repository structure, authentication, and hooks. Makes it quite a pain to use.

The best, but ugliest, I've found so far in php is Mantis. It's far from pretty, doesn't integrate with an SCM out of the box, but got the job done and I prefer it over both of the above mentioned products.

That being said, there's Ditz. . It's not PHP based, or even web based so it's only practical for tracking issues between developers. It's a ruby CLI based issue tracker. I'd recommend downloading the 0.6 from the repository, it's stable and adds a ton to the .5 release.
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When you say project mamnagement, do you mean general project management or project managment for software development?

SugarCRM is a fairly generic system with some basic project management tabs...lets you keep everything centralized which is nice...even a basic bug tracker
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Flyspray and Trac are two examples I've seen a lot.
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PCSpectra wrote:When you say project mamnagement, do you mean general project management or project managment for software development?

SugarCRM is a fairly generic system with some basic project management tabs...lets you keep everything centralized which is nice...even a basic bug tracker

General project management.

I'm pretty sure we're gonna go for Redmine becauase it's free/open source and we can make amendments if we want. Which is the primary advantage over a hosted solution.
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