[dev] Re: [cvs] commit: horde/templates/help index.inc menu.inc

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org>:

> Quoting Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>:
> 
> > Incidentally, is there any way at the moment of forming
> > a URL to the Horde root-URL without having to manually
> > create it?
> 
> well, we should have $conf['horde']['paths']['root'], but there isn't a
> function that automatically looks there, if that's what you're asking.

Yeah - just thought while hunting those references out that 
it would be neater to wrap them around a library call.

> 
> ... The problem with constants is that it's much harder to handle things
> dynamically - either Horde would need a hardcoded list of module constants
> (bad for anyone distributing a module outside Horde, or integrating 
> something locally), or you have to figure out how to make sure 
> that Horde::url() can always know about the constants that are 
> available... Ie, if you're in Turba, how do you make sure you 
> know about the constants for IMP?

Good point ... how about just a wrapper function then?  I.e., form
the URL pointing to the horde-root, and run it through Horde::URL 
to take care of entities and other special cases (if any turn up)
Horde::rootURL() or some suchlike.

-- 
Anil Madhavapeddy, <anil@recoil.org>