[ale] PHP/MySQL Accounting Core - Reccomendations?

[Michael B. Trausch]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: RIPEMD160

Mike Harrison wrote:
> 
> Yeah..I just installed MySQL5 and PHP5.. thinking it'll help me play, and
> after looking at SQL_Ledger and a few others, I may just write my own 
> generic accounting core for my own reasons, and then make a customized 
> version of it for them. 
> 
> A contender I found is: Dolphin:  http://busmgtsys.com
> 
> Demo Login:
> http://busmgtsys.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=48
> 

I have MySQL 5 and PHP 5 on both of my testing machines... I have a
project that I'm working on at the moment that (admittedly) has some
pretty far-fetched goals; however, assuming I can get it working as I
expect to and as I've drawn up thus far, it should be a pretty flexible
system that would be able to do just about anything with plugins on the
server side.  The core system is supposed to be able to manage time and
money; extensions or plugins could be created to "customize" it for
different other purposes such as lead-tracking systems, ticketing, CRM,
or any other number of things that can be directly (or indirectly) tied
to the core concepts of money and time.

So far, however, I've really only been through the planning stages; the
coding has only just begun, and not really even on the project itself,
but other things that I cannot find that are done well enough to be
supported.  I'd like it to run equally as well on either of the two
major open source database systems (MySQL 5 and PostgreSQL 8+) without
modification, and there is no "real" good (read: complete) PHP Database
Abstraction layer out there.  I don't want the code to be littered with
things like "if ($db->Type == DB_POSTGRES) { sql stuff here } ..." and
I'd like it to truly be portable and as standards-compliant as possible.
 *shrugs*  So, we'll see how well that works out.

I'd also like to make it an application that can work with different
interfaces then web browsers, but that is a very back-seat priority.
I've thought about trying to tie it into OpenOffice.org, though for some
things, kind of like what can be done with Microsoft Excel and XML at
the moment with web-based applications.  However, that's only going to
happen if I can get the first part done well enough for anyone to be
interested in using it, anyway.  :-P

	Later,
	Mike

- --
Michael B. Trausch                                      fd0man at gmail.com
AIM: MB Trausch                             Jabber:  mtrausch at jabber.com
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFDcSfJPXInbkqM7nwRAwHHAJ4j9gGRAsegyZp4OGGEYS3tARGazgCfWUDm
2AEfnT/+n0WoeZWERbprido=
=LqkP
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----