It's been a few months in coming, but this is the latest and greatest release of the Project Importer. This one is a minor release but has some nifty new functionality.

Release Notes:

• Fixed an issue with the task_type which was only being set consistently for dynamic tasks. This would cause some tasks not to display in the Project View.
• If you attempt to import a project and there is already one with an identical name, the Importer will automatically delete the existing tasks and import the new tasks into the existing project. A warning will appear to the user during the preview stage.Fixed the parent/child relationship error. In the v1.5 release, a bug was introduced which could cause parent/child relationships to be lost.

And the most interesting part of all is that this is the last planned version for dotProject. All future releases - including the support for additional import options - will support web2project exclusively. Which you can get from SVN right now...

This is the latest and greatest release and resolves a number of small issues and makes some advances in terms of the module overall. The biggest single change is the class structure itself. As in it has one now.

Previously, the module was focused exclusively on importing Microsoft Project files and demonstrated this through a single implementation of preview() and import() for the entire module. The new structure implments a simple BaseImporter extended by a MSProjectImporter. Eventually this will include additional importer classes as they are written (hint, hint).

As a result of this and a few other smaller changes, this module is no longer PHP4-compatible. You must use PHP5+ and dotProject 2.1rc1+ and the module has checks added to stop you from trying to use older version.

No, don't ask for it to be backported to older versions. PHP4 is deprecated and dotProject v2.04 and older are (mostly) deprecated.

I'd like to thank Alain Charles and James Feger for input and sample files that exercised a parent/child error introduces in v1.5.