[Kolab-devel] Horde Based Web Admin Interface

[Martin Konold]

Am Monday 08 March 2004 16:36 schrieb Stephan Buys:

Hi,

> We are currently evaluating doing a rewrite of the Web Admin interface
> using the Horde framework. The reasons being:
>
> 1) It is a well supported, widely used, php-based framework.
> 2) We know it quite well, from our Webclient work.
> 3) We get theme support, session management, etc. free.
> 4) It has a lot of supporting libraries.
> 5) Getting the functionality that we need would mean tweaking existing
> projects, so not a lot of re-invention would be needed.
>
> Any comments/feedback?

In general we also already planned a rewrite of the web admin interface as the 
current code was done under extreme time pressure and used a lot of c&p. The 
crude way of how LDAP is itegrated into php also did not help to write clean 
code.

We planned an OO php rewrite within the Proko2 projekt.

> There are a lot of quirks with the current Admin interface, which would be
> viable to fix, but is it really worth-it creating a whole new framework,
> when using well-established projects seem more in line with the Kolab
> philosophy...

Please elaborate if you want to keep the following strict seperation

Web UI - LDAP - kolabd - configuration files

or if you intend to go the webadmin way (directly modifying configuration 
files...)

Yours,
-- martin

Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold

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