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A couple more minor fixes.  Release 1.2 is now available.

@Digger the reason why auto increment is used is to prevent a race condition.  Suppose two users both action an insert at the same time.  The only mechanism for serializing the request is the mysql server itself which will put the two requests in sequence.  The server then returns the id that it chose to identify the record it just wrote.  If the php code were to do this then there is the remote possibility that a write would be attempted with two identical keys.

The usual way to code around this is to get a key on creation.  This is called a GUID (or a UUID).  These are typically many bits long and created taking into account things like the local (to the FA web server) ethernet card MAC address and time.

IMHO this is not such a trivial change as you might think.

No, the Github pull request has not been merged.  There seems to be little interest in this and other proposed changes.

I recommend the FrontAccounting SimpleAPI module.  There are some functions that are not yet implemented, but its very easily extended, has unit tests, and the author is very responsive to pull requests.

@dz, there's several things that are not responsive in the demo http://demo.saygoweb.com/frontaccounting.  The menus are not properly responsive, so that when they collapse (as on a phone), the main menus no longer work.  Also, main page for each menu is also not responsive.  Most of my effort was focussed on getting bootstrap 3 to work inside each view that you get from the menu system.  If you are viewing one of these pages, it should be properly responsive.  If viewing the menu it will not be responsive.

This is really only a proof of concept.  If the developers of front-accounting were to adopt this type of technique then I'm sure we'd see more bootstrap themes become much easier to produce without hacking the core.

Cambell

I've updated the theme to FrontAccounting v2.3.24.  All-in-one downloads are available on github.

@apmuthu.  The php files are not split / joined.  The only split / joined files are the css files in which less is compiled into css.  I find that the advantages of less are worth the effort.  Further, the compilation process provides a map file which modern browsers support showing the reference to the source less quite clearly.

Having said that if there is a concrete example you have of something being cumbersome I'm happy for the feedback.

This feature currently requires modifications to the Front Accounting core which need to be installed before this theme would work.  So, its not as simple as simply installing the theme and having it work.  That's why I've made the 'all in one' package available, to make it easier for folk to evaluate.

@maulana It looks like you've tried to install it from the 'source' not the tar or zip package.  As you're on windows I've added a zip package for you.  You can download the all in one zip package from the release page.  Choose the green button (all in one package), not the grey one (source code).

Have another read of the instructions, it looks like you're trying to install it as a developer rather than the packages that a user would prefer.

The longer answer, is that the source code for the themes does not have the css styles 'built'.  The source for bootstrap styles comes as less files which are then 'built' into the final css used in the theme.  I've provided gulp build tasks for building the bootstrap less into the final 'default.css' file.  The theme also uses twig templates which are installed via composer.

With modern web development tools end users cannot simply install the source and expect it to work.  There are dependencies to install (via composer), and processes to run (via gulp) to generate the final set of files that would be used.

I've fixed the Inventory Item Status combo box.  You can see that in the demo.

The menu text for each category can easily be enlarged.  However, I'm leaving it at a consistent size to keep with the goal of a minimal change bootstrap theme.  Other themes can make more artistic changes based on this minimal theme.

This work is now as complete as I'm going to make it for the moment at least.  See the announcement here.