[Tickets #9554] Re: store multiple email addresses as separate 'mail' attributes in LDAP

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Ticket URL: https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/9554
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  Ticket             | 9554
  Updated By         | vectro at vectro.org
  Summary            | store multiple email addresses as separate 'mail'
                     | attributes in LDAP
  Queue              | Turba
  Version            | Git master
  Type               | Enhancement
  State              | Accepted
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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oliverafg at gmx.de (2016-11-02 21:42) wrote:

> 1) The email form field always returns a single value, though we  
> could of course split this up again, or add an option to return an  
> array instead.
> 2) But more important, there isn't any way in Turba to store one  
> field into several attributes. We do have composite fields, but  
> these store in a *fixed* number of *different* attributes, not in a  
> *variable* number of the *same* attribute. There is no  
> infrastructure for that at all, so this is a larger undertaking.

Is this necessary at all?
As far as I can say, the emails (multi_value) field works fine with  
IMP and ActiveSync.

It works with ActiveSync in the expected way, the first three email  
addresses from emails are provided as email1, email2 and email3 to an  
activesync device and read this way from the device. (three email  
address are the limit of activesync)

this happens ins turba/lib/Driver.php at line 2690:
             case 'emails':
                 $address = 1;
                 foreach (explode(',', $value) as $email) {
                     while ($address <= 3 &&
                            $message->{'email' . $address . 'address'}) {
                         $address++;
                     }
                     if ($address > 3) {
                         break;
                     }
                     $message->{'email' . $address . 'address'} = $email;
                     $address++;
                 }
                 break;

A smiliar code snippet is there for vcards.

For LDAP I find the "array_merge" inside the _read function off  
Ldap.php. In funtion _write, there is nothing.

My suggestions:

1) generic version
at line 304:
if source is comma seperated array and target mutli value
for i in array ...
this one might be dangerous with other fields als children/child

2)
Or a hardcoded version just for "emails"
somehow ugly but works and no side effects

3)
in backends.local.php the opportunity/example for 2)

My php skills are just not good enough at the moment :(