martycox wrote on Wednesday, March 12, 2008:
I’m Marty Cox, a programmer/analyst for Conley and Associates. We have finally gotten around to loading and testing the OEMR software. Myself and John Taylor will be giving the program a complete breakdown from scratch. We have been doing these breakdowns for the last 8 months or so on various projects for the government in PhP. Whatever fixes, enhancements, and general changes we make, we will make available to Ron Roark and the rest of the community. Currently, we are only going to be able to devote a day or so a week to the project, but in the foreseeable future, the plan is to have at least one FT programmer working on it.
What we have found in the initial installation:
1) On the windows installation, we are working on automating the entire process which we found to be buggy, unwieldy, and frustrating. This is first on our list of "Must be done".
2) There are also some MySQL database generation errors which we are working on fixing the code for.
3) Graphically, the entire program needs a makeover. Crisper, cleaner graphics. Non-clashing color selection. Possibly template selection, similar to PhPBB.
4) There are several variables set by reference (&), Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated.
5) Add ‘compiled’ and ‘cache’ subfolders by default
to /interface/main/calendar/modules/PostCalendar/pntemplates/
6) Get rid of all the short tags (<?)
7) Temporarily increase PHP’s max. execution time during install, it bombs with the defaults. This may be due to inefficient code… haven’t dug too deep yet.
8) New Patient entry screen needs to be the same as the detail edit screen.
Should we wait for the new version release to do the breakdown? Ie. How close is it to production?
Conley and Associates, Inc.