Integration in a CMS

[Jey]

Hello,

for a project, I am hosted at some project hoster using VHFFS (http://vhffs.org). It enables users to create easily web sites, svn, cvs, DB, mailing-list. But it is missing a must-of feature to compete really with other concurrents like sourceforge: a bug tracker.
I was looking at several bug trackers, like bugzilla, trac, mantis or flyspray to see which one can be included easily in VHFFS. Mantis looks nice and pretty light. But I cannot find in your documentation if you have some API to interact with Mantis.

The idea is simple: on the host server, an instance of Mantis would be running:
- the login in VHFFS should be shareable with the login in Mantis;
- a user of VHFFS has a project and he wants to create a bug tracking system for it. So he just pushes a button "create a Mantis tracking system", and this would create a new product in the Mantis instance, giving the user some Mantis administration's rights on his project.

So the best should be some API to administer Mantis automatically. If it exists, how can I get info on it?
If there is not, what would you advised to do the job?
Thanks.

[vboctor]

You have the following options:

1. Use SOAP API included with Mantis 1.1.0rc2.
2. Use SOAP API included with Mantis 1.1.0rc2 as a patch to Mantis 1.0.8.
3. Directly use core API if the caller is on the same server and is implemented in PHP.

I would recommend option 1 or 2.