Getting Things Done with PHP
January 17 by Leon Ho | Technology, Uncategorized
An web application called GTD-PHP has been released. It is a Getting Things Done (GTD) personal organization system, web based and written in PHP and MySQL. If you have your own personal web server, this maybe a good app for you.
I haven’t personally try this utility yet. The interface are not attractive, but it seems it got most of the required features for Getting Things Done methodology. It would be great to hear from anyone who has tested this app.
I installed in on my website. Had to do a little tinkering (I’m not a coder, btw, just a good googler).
The database name created by my web server cannot be just ‘gtd’, but wasn’t hard to accomodate this change. Just need to change in the config.php and makegtd.sql files.
I did struggle with changing some syntax in the makegtd.sql file work with my version of SQL: Changed last line of each table script to read as such for SQL 4.0.16:
TYPE=MyISAM CHARACTER SET latin1;
My issue with all of these web-based GTD tools is that, unless you’re using some sort of WAMP (or LAMP) local server, they force you to be online.
While not necessarily a big issue, nowadays, it can becomeone if you’re forced offline.
Pretty cool idea. I might just set up an apache server for one.
Getting Things Done with PHP
Lifehack.org points to a new Sourceforge project where you can install your own Getting Things Done system to your web server. gtd-php is an open source, web-based implementation of the Getting Things Done (GTD) personal organization system. It is written
Follow-up: I wrote a blog post about how I installed the GTD-php program on my hosted web server:
http://www.b2blog.com/2006/01/gtd-php-steps-to-install.htm
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Serge and I updated the gtd-php script with a nice new design. Here’s a working demo of version 0.2:
http://gtd-php.sourceforge.net/gtd/index.php
Version 0.2 is out and an on-line demo is available for kicking the tires:
http://gtd-php.sf.net/gtd/
Version 0.3 is out.
Demo: http://gtd-php.sourceforge.net/gtd/
Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=157107
Change log:
2006-01-28 Version 0.3
– Fixed count of completed/non-completed nextActions (Serge Rey)
– Fixed plural useage on summary.php (Serge Rey)
– Fixed showing table headings when there are no NAs in project report (Serge Rey)
– Fixed showing table headings when there are no WOs in project report (Serge Rey)
– Fixed showing table headings when there are no Nas in context report (Serge Rey)
– Added delete checkbox on editNextAction form (Serge Rey)
– Added complete checkbox on editNextAction form (Serge Rey)
– Added complete checkbox on next actions report form (Serge Rey)
– Added complete checkbox on context report form (Serge Rey)
– Changed tarball and zip archive to include gtd directory (Thanks to Vicki Brown)
2006-01-21 Version 0.2
– css and layout redesign (Jason Brown)
– refresh on update and new nextActions (Serge Rey)
– meta links on side bar (Serge Rey)
2006-01-15 Version 0.1 (Windy)
Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions/criticisms/bug reports. Keep them coming!
really cool software. easy to install and allows me to be x-platform – and get my wife to buy into GTD cult :)
i know this starts taking away from the simplicity of it, but a calendar add-on would be nice in the future.
Who can make this cool app available as a workable offline page such as Next Action:
http://trimpath.com/demos/nextaction_static1/nextaction.htm
We’re at version 0.7… with active development and quarterly releases. It’s nothing like 0.2– and getting better by the day!
Check it out at our new home: http://www.gtd-php.com