I am working on a project management system and want to build a Mylyn plugin such that all tasks from the PMS show up in Eclipse / Aptana. I want to adapt Extreme Programming model of Iterations – User Stories and Tasks. XPlanner does this really well, and Mylyn already has an XPlanner connector.

So I want to keep the same XPlanner API and hook that up with my PMS! (Don’t have time / skills to build a new Mylyn connector yet!)

XPlanner has a SOAP client in PHP, but that’s written in NuSOAP. PHP’s SOAP support uses a different convention for web services. Here’s a simple XPlanner SOAP client for PHP (right after the jump!)

[PHP]

XPlanner PHP SOAP Example

‘;
foreach ($obj as $key=>$value)
{
echo ‘

‘.$key.’: ‘.$value.’

‘;
}
echo ‘

‘;
}

$projects = $xplanner->getProjects();
foreach ($projects as $project)
{
echo ‘

‘.$project->name.’

‘.$project->description.’

‘;
$iterations = $xplanner->getIterations($project->id);
foreach($iterations as $iteration)
{
echo ‘

‘.$iteration->name.’

‘.$iteration->description.’

‘;
dump_props($iteration);
$stories = $xplanner->getUserStories($iteration->id);
foreach($stories as $story)
{
echo ‘

‘.$story->name.’

‘.$story->description.’

‘;
dump_props($story);
$tasks = $xplanner->getTasks($story->id);
foreach ($tasks as $task)
{
echo ‘

‘.$task->name.’

‘.$task->description.’

‘;
dump_props($task);
}
}
}
}
?>
[/PHP]

References:

• XPlanner SOAP API documentation
• Mylyn plugin for Eclipse