Open Source MIS Ideas?

[zag]

I remember a big thread about this a few years ago and forgot I actually started working on an open source MIS system.

 

My main idea was to create a web based version of the basic features of Sims using PHP/MYSQL

 

Does anyone have any feature requests they would like to see in an open source MIS system?

 

Here's the basic template.

 

 

Things I can think of:

 

- Single search bar for any contact type (student/parent/teacher)

- Census support

- Student photograph standard size resizing

- Behaviour and Achievement records

Edited October 14, 2014 by zag

[matt40k]

Bump.... any progress?

[zag]

Yep, still occasionally working on this(It has basic student details now/mysql backend/db schema sorted) but I want to bring it up to coding publication standards before I upload it to GitHub.

 

Nobody showed much interest yet so it will be slow going.

 

I'm still aiming to replicate a basic Sims student screen screen over the web as the first target.

[matt40k]

You're prob not find much interest until it's at least a working prototype, ie something you could use for a summer school or such. Devs don't like starting work either until they have all the information and have a plan in place.

 

ps: you can see the irony of not publishing the source code to a open-source product with "open" in the name

[zag]

You're prob not find much interest until it's at least a working prototype, ie something you could use for a summer school or such. Devs don't like starting work either until they have all the information and have a plan in place.

 

ps: you can see the irony of not publishing the source code to a open-source product with "open" in the name

 

Hehe don't worry about the opensource thing, I'm about as open source as you get!

 

https://github.com/zag2me?tab=repositories

 

I'll publish it there when I'm happy with the basic code.

[matt40k]

Looks like you could do with using a PHP framework. My I suggest Laravel - Laravel - The PHP framework for web artisans.. Some good tutorials on https://laracasts.com/.

[Barcrest]

Did this go anywhere? I only ask as I see there is visual basic MIS posted up on planet source code that looked interesting and i wondered if there was anything going on over here.

[zag]

Its still on my computer I think, but nobody else showed interest so its just sitting there.

 

I'd certainly like to redo it in Laravel as suggested, just need to learn the framework!

[MattDLEA]

Looks interesting, my php is rusty though

[Barcrest]

I assume you were planning on this for some sort of intranet access. I had our registers from lesson monitor displaying nicely on a web page so they could be called up on a phone or tablet in the event of a fire but the security issues ended up with me not actually going live with it for external access. Obviously internally there wasn't any point.

[zag]

Although my project never got off the ground, I saw something very cool recently that could help.

 

https://docs.wonde.com/docs/api/1.0#get-all-schools

 

It essentially looks like an API to access Sims via JSON

 

Since JSON is basically just an array of data, this could open up all kinds of possibilities. Shame it costs money, but quite a significant step forward to opening up the Sims data.

 

EDIT: cool they even have a PHP client https://github.com/wondeltd/php-client

Edited January 31, 2017 by zag