Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Next Generation Framework

[Dave Hall]

This raises the issue of locales.  If phpgw had proper locale support,
then we could do this and many other cool things, such as currency, tz
offset, language, charset, date/time format etc etc all in one pref
setting :)

Dan Kuykendall <address@hidden> wrote:

> I believe for this we need to use mbstring, which I have not 
> messed with.
> If you can provide me with some examples, then this would be a 
> good time 
> to make sure we make it work with  double char langs.
> 
> Dan
> 
> C K Wu wrote:
> 
> > Hi, Dan,
> >
> > Great stuff. Just a quick question about gettext support.
> > Does it mean that the next generation framework will support
> > the full language_country notation, instead of the current
> > double char language code. If so, it would certainly be
> > a immense improvement for international users.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > CK
> >
> >
> > Dan Kuykendall ??:
> >
> >> I mentioned this a week ago on this mailing list and figured I 
> should 
> >> update you all on the progress.
> >>
> >> Progress has gone splendidly!
> >> We have really got this code moving in the right direction.
> >> Heres a run down of the new stuff:
> >> * Multi-language support added and uses gettext
> >> * If gettext is missing stuff then it can optionally do 
> translations 
> >> using babelfish.
> >> * XML-RPC support
> >> * Preferences system
> >> * Admin screens
> >> * App submenu's
> >> * op history (shows you the last 5 places you have been in the app)
> >> * Nicer setup screens using tabs
> >> * More xslt widgets
> >> * Docs are starting to slowly appear
> >>
> >> Interface Layer:
> >> I broke out the parts that take the resulting XML and pass it 
> thru 
> >> XSLT and to the browser and moved all that to an interface 
> class. 
> >> This also included things like handling login, logout and final 
> error 
> >> handling. I think wrote an XML-RPC version of the interface 
> class and 
> >> things worked out great. I wrote my XML-RPC interface from 
> scratch 
> >> for the new framework, so its very nice and tight and fits 
> perfectly. 
> >> I will soon embark on writing a SOAP version of the interface 
> class, 
> >> and it should be possible to create any number of interfaces.
> >>
> >> The nice thing about this is that once past the interface class 
> >> everything else happens along the normal process, such as the 
> ACL 
> >> checks, language, preferences, hooks and everything else. The 
> app 
> >> developer also doesnt have to do anything different whatsoever. 
> So 
> >> long as the apps functions use safe_args and return arrays as 
> is the 
> >> standard in the new framework, then everything else is handled 
> >> transparently and safely.
> >>
> >> More details can be found at 
> http://www.kuykendall.org/phpgroupware/>>
> >> I encourage everyone to take a look and give me feedback. The 
> code is 
> >> in the phpGroupWare cvs tree in the proposal-branch
> >>
> >> |cvs -
> d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/phpgroupware login
> >>
> >> cvs -z3 -
> d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/phpgroupware 
> >> co -r proposal-branch phpgroupware
> >>
> >> cd phpgroupware
> >>
> >> cvs -z3 -
> d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/phpgroupware 
> >> co -r proposal-branch admin addressbook api calendar skel wcm |
> >>
> >> For those with coding skills, looking at the code its far more 
> >> enlightening than using the demo or reading the docs.
> >>
> >> Dan Kuykendall
> >>
> >>
> >>
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