Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Synchronization support for phpGW - Draft

[Evan Sebire]

Hi all,
        first of all I would like to congratulate you on this effort to get 
synchronisation into groupware,

Are you trying to do this all in php? (I think the answer is no), I've been 
working on getting syncml to work (in php) but the client I'm testing with is 
using wbxml which is a little bit tricker and until now have not been able to 
find any working php code, so I'm relying on libxml  to change wbxml to xml 
and then process the sync.  Not really suitable for a easy to install 
phpgroupware!
I started out using the code from http://nicolas.bougues.net/syncml/ , but as 
soon as the client is not a p800 I've run into problems, so are currently 
re-writting using DOM, but at the moment I'm not to far.
My client is a sony Ericsson T610 and is suppose to use syncml 1.0 but the 
credentials are in the syncbody, which is not any standard.  Anyway the point 
I'm trying to make is that if you want to integrate syncml into phpgroupware  
you should stick to version 1.1, this will probably break a lot of device 
compatability but in a year or two these devices will probably be not on the 
market, hopefully!
As for palm I have no idea.

        Evan Sebire


On Thursday 20 November 2003 23:47, Markus Kaemmerer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as you'll already now, we at probusiness are working on
> synchronization support for phpGW. The goal is to add comprehensive
> support of synchronization with end user devices like smart phones,
> palm and pocket pcs and synchronization with offline phpGW versions.
>
> We made a draft concept which includes description of all main
> aspects, including database description and layer model diagram. The
> sync concept describes seven mostly independent layers to get the
> greatest possible modularity and flexibility.
>
> You may download the documents from
> http://www.probusiness.de/projekte/phpgroupware/sync.html (they are
> too large to attach them on this mail).
>
> We are interested in all sort of comments and help with this concept.
> Please tell me all your ideas about the concept and do not hesitate to
> ask me about this document. I'll improve the document on a regular
> basis and you'll find almost the newest version at the link above.
>
> Markus
>
>
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