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[PHP] Team Management Software


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Hey,

For a while now, I've been the only programmer where I work. PHP, MySQL.

Well, it's now too much for me to do alone lol So, we are bringing in some help.

Now, I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a program that will allow us to all work on a site together, but not over write each others work?

One of the programmers that we talked to mentioned a program, but I can't remember the name of it. And wont be in contact with him for a couple of days.

So I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions so I can try a few of them out?

Hopefully someone knows what I'm talking about lol I've never programmed on a team before. My laptop is my test server, and then I simply upload it when I'm ready.

Also, if anyone has any suggestions for working on a team as well.

Thank you for any help :)

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Hey,

For a while now, I've been the only programmer where I work. PHP, MySQL.

Well, it's now too much for me to do alone lol So, we are bringing in some help.

Now, I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a program that will allow us to all work on a site together, but not over write each others work?

One of the programmers that we talked to mentioned a program, but I can't remember the name of it. And wont be in contact with him for a couple of days.

So I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions so I can try a few of them out?

Hopefully someone knows what I'm talking about lol I've never programmed on a team before. My laptop is my test server, and then I simply upload it when I'm ready.

Also, if anyone has any suggestions for working on a team as well.

Thank you for any help :)

Sounds like you're asking for revision/version control software. Using version control is a good practice, even if you're the only one working on a project.

There are many options out there. Subversion (centralized), Git (distributed) and Mercurial (distributed) are all good options.

If you develop on a Windows machine, Mercurial and Subversion have better visual tools. If you want to use the command-line, any option will work.

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as mentioned above i use subversion for version control and also for a centralized center for any of my projects, so i can share with multiple team members.

setting up subversion is easy as pie if you have linux experience as well but its not difficult if your a newbie. Follow this tutorial here on how to setup a subversion server here

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Thank you both, I will look into those :)

I had never given much thought to anything like that before. I simply made backups every once in a while to keep track of versions...Will be trying out subversion...Works for Linux and Windows. I use Linux, while they use Windows.

Thank you for the suggestions :)

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Thanks for the help :) I'll have to take a look at them this weekend and play around with them before deciding. Looks like subversion and Git are popular, and for different OS's, so I'll have to see.

Thanks again :)

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Thanks for the help :) I'll have to take a look at them this weekend and play around with them before deciding. Looks like subversion and Git are popular, and for different OS's, so I'll have to see.

Thanks again :)

I actually use Mercurial myself. I helped migrate my company from Source (not so) Safe to Subversion to Mercurial.

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+1 for Subversion. Occasionally I get minor problems with it. If a wireless connection goes down mid-commit, it gets a bit confused for example. But stuff like that is easily worked out and I've never lost any work.

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If you end up practicing branch per feature, you'll quickly find out that branching in Subversion isn't as nice as branching in Git, and Mercurial.

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