[Kolab-devel] php5 dom and php4 domxml

[Marcus Hüwe]

Hi Gunnar,

thanks for your reply.

On 2007-04-30 22:51:42 +0200, Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
> Hi Marcus,
> 
> Marcus Hüwe <suse-tux at gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > I just played around with the kolab freebusy stuff and noticed that it doesn't
> > work with php5 because php5 doesn't support php4's domxml functions.
> >
> > Here are some proposals how to solve this problem:
> > - kolab (openpkg) switches to php5 after the 2.1 release
> 
> I don't know if OpenPKG is providing PHP5 at the moment but in any
> case I believe we are still at a phase where you should always allow
> to use both PHP4 and PHP5. There are still many webapps that do not
> work with PHP5 and providing only the newer version does not seem to
> be an optimal solution.
> 
> > - we write a "dom_wrapper"-script so that kolab can be used with php4 and php5
> 
> This does already exist within Horde::DOM. Basically there exists only
> one wrapper script in the wild and this has also been used as a basis
> for the Horde::DOM module (only the coding style was converted to
> Horde style).
> 
> > - we use Horde's DOM implementation (I didn't look into this yet, I just saw
> > that Gunnar is using it for gentoo).
> 
> The patches for this have been already prepared and all that is needed
> is to replace the Horde framework packages within Kolab and fix
> kolab-resource-handlers accordingly.
> 
> So I think the last solution is the most promising one.
> 
Ok you're right. If such a wrapper is already included in the Horde::DOM class
then the best is to use this existing one instead of writing a new one.


Marcus