[Phpgroupware-developers] Re: Phpgroupware-developers Digest, Vol 20, Issue 23

[Geoff Robinson]

> > I want to be able to, say, enter a new contact through Thunderbird and 
> > have it show up in phpGroupware. Entering contacts into LDAP (using GQ 
> > browser) does not show up on the web (current SQL store is just copied 
> > on write to the LDAP system, yes?). I also want to be able to write to 
> > remote iCalendar with a client like the MacOS iCal, or Sunbird.
> a) Thunderbird has no write access to ldap does it?

You're right. I didn't notice that.

>> - What is the status of the xml-rpc interface? Is it considered
>> experimental?
>>
>It is usefull already for many things. But its not lake the whole phpgw
>infrastructure of basic apps are readily, naturaly available. This will
>probably change in the next release.
>
>> - Does my concept of a native client + web interface system jive with
>> your overall design goals?
>>
>Yeah. It does.... but some are also thinking of a custom made xul based
>client using javascript  and the new dom2 objects to access the
>groupware through xmlrpc. I think i have a couple of buyers for that as
>well.

Well, this is about where I thought it was. I was hoping that I might 
have been able to stand something very basic up with client+web 
immediately, just to have it available. But I think I'm going to put 
that idea down.

I like the modular construction of this package. I like the flexibility 
of being able to offer per-domain configured sites all running on the 
same core logic. And this seems pretty solid through the web interface 
(please correct me if I'm wrong!).

In the long run, what I really want is a native client with the full 
functionality of phpgroupware and its modules. Who is talking about 
building an xul client? I may be interested in working on something like 
that.

- Geoff

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Geoff Robinson
Tavros Technology
Chicago, IL