Thursday, October 16, 2008

Project Plus – Project Management Web Application

by Roman Leinwather

As you may know I was a student of PHP beginner course on City University, London during this spring. I have to say I have learned a lot and it was time well spend and worth the money. That is the reason I have singed myself to PHP Advanced course in the same school. The course started 2 weeks ago and it has been very cool so far and I am looking forward to other lessons.

I actually do not use PHP in my daily work. I mainly use XHTML, CSS, JS, AJAX and ColdFusion at work. So you might be asking yourself why do I study PHP.

Project Plus

Some time ago I had a dream to build web application so I was looking for which language I should learn. I have found out that PHP is the most used language on the web and usually the chose of web standards coders as well. So I made my mind and chose PHP.

During the first part of my PHP course I have found out that the application I need most is tool for managing my projects. I don’t necessary mean web stuff, any projects. Studying, Sport, Photography, Design, Typography, Coding etc.

Logically I came with the idea to build Project application. It is going to be called Project Plus. I have spent some time recently designing some of the screens for the application. Here are few of them.


screenshot of Project Plus - web application design proposal


home page of Project Plus - web application design proposal

See all screenshots on flickr

Coding of the web app

I am still holding back in terms of coding this application because I want to use object oriented programming first and then code the application that way. I should be able to start coding it in 2-3 months, until then I should design all the screens and maybe even build some templates. I would also like to increase my knowledge about building databases so I do it right way in terms of security, performance and scalability.

Your feedback is welcome

If you have any ideas about such application let me know. Once the application is build it is going to available for free to all of you.