Posted by Justin French on 01/18/05 16:52

On 18/01/2005, at 10:08 AM, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful wrote:

> Just wondering if anyone can recommend an open php source application
> suitable for knowledge management for a small development team? We
> have 3
> coders with different responsibilities, but often have to cover each
> other
> if unexpected things happen. We're hoping to implement a knowledge
> management tool of some sort in which we can store business logic, code
> snippets, back-end table / stored procedure descriptions and so forth.
> We're
> hoping to find something that allows us to extensively categorize /
> keyword
> entries, in which content is easy to maintain, expand etc, and which
> has
> extensive search capabilities. Our ultimate (if perhaps unlikely) goal
> is to
> be able to place a new coder into our environment with a tool that
> enables
> him or her to get up to speed with our environment in the shortest time
> possible.

This just sounds like a Wiki to me, and there are tons of PHP Wikis
available. As far as Wikis go, I really like Instiki
<http://instiki.org> (although it's in Ruby, not PHP). While we're
talking about Ruby there's also a commercial/hosted service called
Basecamp <http://basecamphq.com> built using Ruby and the Rails
framework.

You could also bend Textpattern <http://textpattern.com> (a PHP based
Open-source CMS/blog tool which has been in Gamma and RC forever, but
is slated for 1.0 in the next few days) into such a beast as well.
Actually, Textpattern makes a great candidate because of it's keywords,
excerpts and decent searching.

I'm managing all my collaborative projects in one of two ways:
- basecamp
- instiki or some other wiki

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Justin French, Indent.com.au
justin.french@indent.com.au
Web Application Development & Graphic Design

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