Introduction to dotProject

Introduction:

dotProject is a FOSS (Free Open Source Software) web-based Project Management application, designed to provide project layout, control and reporting functions. It is written in PHP. It is used to manage the day to day activities of project progression. The software license is BSN, GNU General Public License (GPL) which means it is free software provided as is with no warranty.

dotProject, internal company projects sit comfortably side by side with projects for external clients, providing monitoring and comparison of the volume of both chargeable and non-chargeable work performed by specific employees and suppliers.

dotProject enables you to create, track and maintain your projects online. It provides enterprise-level project management tools that include contact management, an email notification system, and an online system to create and manage projects.

Features:

It is easy to work with dotProject because it has clean and simple user interface. Its core features include:

User Management
Ticketing Support System provided via email
Client Management
Task Listing
File Archive
Contact List
Calendar
Discussion Forum

Requirements for installing:

dotProject requires a functioning web server with integrated PHP and MySQL support, and, of course, a web browser. Web server implemenations include:
LAMP: Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP
WAMP: Windows+Apache+MySQL+PHP
WIMP: Windows+IIS+MySQL+PHP

Web Server
Apache (www.apache.org) is recommended to be version 1.3.27 or higher.

PHP
PHP (www.php.net) version 4.1.x or higher is required. PHP versions earlier than 4.0.x are NO LONGER SUPPORTED.
PHP needs to have the GD library installed to allow the Gantt charts to work. Use the phpinfo() function on your local (or hosted) system to see if this is compiled/installed with PHP.

MySQL
MySQL (www.mysql.com) version 3.23.51 or higher is recommended. You will also need an administration client for MySQL (such as MySQL Command Centre available from the MySQL web site).

Browser
You will also need a forth generation browser that supports style sheets and javascript (IE Version 5.5 or better, Mozilla 1.2, Netscape 7.x, etc). Many PNG image files are used in dotProject with alpha-transparency. Later versions of Mozilla and Netscape will render these properly. A patch has been applied to allow IE 6.0 to render these images also. However, earlier version of IE will not display the background of the images properly.