[Tickets #8366] vCard Parsing Errors with Property Groups

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/8366
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  Ticket             | 8366
  Created By         | Ben Klang <ben at alkaloid.net>
  Summary            | vCard Parsing Errors with Property Groups
  Queue              | Horde Framework Packages
  Version            | FRAMEWORK_3
  Type               | Bug
  State              | Unconfirmed
  Priority           | 2. Medium
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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Ben Klang <ben at alkaloid.net> (2009-06-22 15:29) wrote:

While attempting to import contacts exported from Apple's Address Book  
I found a limitation of the vCard processing code.  vCard allows for  
single attributes to have multiple values: for example several email  
addresses or multiple street addresses.  This mechanism may be  
accomplished using vCard Property Groups.  The way to signify this is  
to use a prefix on the field name such as "item1.", followed by  
"item2.", etc.  Horde Framework and Turba both expect all fields to be  
only named for their field (such as "ADR" for address) and so miss  
these fields with a prefix.  The symptom is that fields with a prefix  
get ignored.

Here is an example vCard snippet:
item1.ADR;type=HOME;type=pref:;;Attn\: Sharon Braunstein\nP.O. Box  
5396;Atlanta;GA;31107;

I found at least two places where this needs to be modified:
framework/iCalendar/iCalendar.php
turba/lib/Driver.php

 From what I can tell Turba will not be able to store multiple  
attribute values, but we should be able to at least parse one of them  
to store.  In this case the item1 address had a type of "HOME" and the  
item2 had a type of "WORK" which can map safely into Turba.