Today I began works on upgrading from GLPI 0.71 to 0.80.2. Apparently in version 0.72 & 0.72.1 there were some dramatic changes to the plugin spec requiring some code changes.

Some years ago I made a plugin so that when new information is added to a ticket, it waits for 10-15 minutes for further submissions to go idle, then combines them all into no more than 308 characters (2 SMS messages), and sends it as an SMS to the ticket requester (ie. the customer).

So I began migrating the plugin code to support GLPI 0.80.2 which is quite challenging as all the GLPI documentation is in French. Thank God for Google Translate (also that remark calls for a funny joke I heard the other day – “God made me an atheist. Who are you to question his wisdom?”)

I’m also going to begin implementing a second feature of this plugin utilizing MMS and Nokia Smart Messaging so that when a new customer is added, a business card (vCard) is sent to their mobile phone with all my contact information.

Thought I’d blog about it here because I’m not interested in releasing this plugin as open source, however I am interested in licensing the plugin. Anyone want to buy it? Just leave me a comment on this blog if you’re interested.

I should probably also develop another plugin for GLPI for processing credit card payments on tickets instead of processing them the round-about way I do at present. I could even use the PayPal gateway.