<com:TContent ID="body"> <h1>Introduction</h1> <p>The Time Tracker is a fully functional sample application designed to introduce you to many of Prado's features. This guide is a step by step walkthrough starting from installation to deployment. The Time Tracker application is based on the <a href="http://www.asp.net/downloads/starterkits/">ASP.NET's Time Tracker Starter Kit</a>. </p> <h1>Time Tracker Overview</h1> <p>The Time Tracker is a business web application for keeping track of hours spent on a project, with ability to handle multiple resources as well as multiple projects.</p> <h2>Basic Application Requirements</h2> <p>The functional requirements of the Time Tracker is based on the <a href="http://www.asp.net/downloads/starterkits/">ASP.NET's Time Tracker Starter Kit</a> description.</p> <p class="requirements"> <h3>Create projects</h3> <ul> <li>Define projection information like due dates, hours to complete, project resources, and more.</li> <li>Break down projects into tasks and track work on per-task basis.</li> </ul> <h3>Create and track tasks</h3> <ul> <li>Track time spent each day by category and project.</li> </ul> <h3>Use reports to track progress</h3> <ul> <li>Track overall progress across multiple projects, including estimated and actual work.</li> <li>Track total work for team resources across multiple projects.</li> </ul> </p> <h2>Technologies and Design Approached Demonstrated</h2> <ul> <li>Prado event-driven component framework</li> <li>Separation of concerns: persistent storage, business logic, presentation</li> <li>Object-Relational mapping using SQLMap</li> <li>Unit testing and functional testing</li> <li>Promote code reuse</li> </ul> <h1>Requirements</h1> <p>The Time Tracker web application requires the following software and knowledge.</p> <h2>Software requirements</h2> <p>It is assumed that you are able to obtain and install the following pieces of software.</p> <ol> <li>PHP version 5.0.4 or greater</li> <li>A web server, such as Apache, able to run PHP scripts</li> <li>MySQL database server version 4.1 or greater (alternatively SQLite or Postgres)</li> <li>Prado version 3.1 or later</li> </ol> <p>In addition to software requirements, we assumed that you have some of the following knowledge.</p> <ul> <li>Access the internet to download packaged code, and unzip these code.</li> <li>Understand the basic concepts of Object-Oriented programming in PHP such as classes, objects, methods, etc.</li> <li>Basic understanding of relational databases and Structured Query Language (SQL).</li> <li>Knows how to have fun, this is mandatory.</li> </ul> </com:TContent>