[ansel] Problem with conf.xml/php

[Heath S. Hendrickson]

Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> Quoting "Heath S. Hendrickson" <heath at outerspaceconsultants.com>:
>
>> Actually, it's only partially done, and feel free to work on the pop-up
>> part.  I just implemented the custom text as a user-pref, but it would
>> be best if it could be set on-the-fly in a pop-up (which is what I read
>> into the TODO entry, correct me if I'm wrong, Chuck).
>
>
> Nope, that's right. Maybe even a preference as to whether or not to 
> use the
> popup, since some people might not want to have to type something 
> every time.
> If you want to get fancy, some simple placeholders for the current 
> date/time,
> etc. would be nifty - put those into your preference and you wouldn't 
> have to
> update the watermark each time.
>
Oooh, you mean like %Y for current year, %L for login id, %U for user 
identity, %D for current date and the like?  Does Horde already have a 
parser for that sort of thing (no reason to rebuild if it's already there)?

So someone could enter in the user pref:  "(c) %Y - %U" which would 
translate to something like:  "(c) 2004 - Heath Hendrickson"

How about having the pop-up, but have it read the value out of the pref 
and pre-populate it so you just have to hit a button to apply it or you 
can change it if you want/need to (or is that what you meant, Chuck)?

heath