osTicket/osTicket-1.8 — pull request #2 by greezybacon (2013-08-21 22:41:44+00:00)
Title: Dynamic data for osTicket

*This is a major redesign / rework of the osTicket base*

This patch drops the concept of static ticket metadata and allows for an
admin-configurable arbitrary data that is attachable to tickets

The system is architected such that the base osTicket install now comes with
a "default" form that has fields for subject, name, email, and phone number.
This form is editable to allow for the addition of arbitrary other fields;
however, the basic fields must remain in order to be associated with a
help-topic and attached to a ticket.

This concept can be expanded to allow for arbitrary data associated with
registered clients or ticket thread items.

Forms are comprised of sections. Sections have a title and instructions
properties and a list of fields. Fields have various implementations to
represent different data such as text, long answer, phone number, datetime,
yes/no, and selections, and are configurable to define the look and feel and
interpretation of the respective form field.

Dropdown lists are represented as "Dynamic Lists", which are
admin-configurable lists of items. Dropdowns can be optionally represented
as Bootstrap typeahead fields.

This also adds the start of a simple ORM which will hopefully be expanded in
the future to support multiple database platforms. Currently, only MySQL is
implemented.