PHP Bug Tracker – Instant Search Suggestions, Advanced Search, Ticket Updates

After a good amount of time that i’ve put into this system i can finally see it’s progress and it sure made some good progress. We still have lots of things to do, But we are proud of what we achieved up until now. Couple of days ago i saw the instant search suggestion feature in one of the websites i was browsing, I thought it’s a really cool and neat idea to put this in the tracker so anyone could instantly see the search results for this keywords, So last night i’ve completed this feature and it works great. In any moment one can just hit the Advanced Search link to go to the full search page that allows him to search tickets based on certain criteria like title, keywords, who reported the ticket, assigned to, status, type, category, version, priority etc..

One more thing that was added in the advanced search is the ability to perform Multi-Moderation right from the search results page on the tickets you’ve chosen. That multi-moderation feature will certainly make a difference and will make bug tracking a lot easier. If you have searched the system it will remember your search terms for the session or until you hit the reset button, So if for example you searched for tickets based on certain criteria then visited that ticket and came back to the advanced search page it will remember your search conditions you entered and will show the relevant results just like you left it before you entered the single ticket.

In the ticket view screen you will be able to update the ticket properties and/or add a comment to the ticket. Comments are ordered by date submitted when the oldest comment is the first one and the newest comment is the last comment.

To see the tracker in action online just visit: http://vadimg.com/tracker (This is temporary until i figure out a name for it to purchase a domain)