Re: PHP application for knowledge management?

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