[dev] Maintenance stuff/IMP Terms Of Service

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org>:

| I guess I don't have real objections to it, although it doesn't seem like
| something that many of our users, historically, have wanted... I had 
| visions of this being slightly more flexible and letting us use the 
| maintenance system to easily provide users with custom polls and such, 
| which would be _really_ cool. ;)
| 
| -chuck

[Begin sales pitch now...]
Uh, it's still really cool now.
[End sales pitch]

Pretty lame pitch I realize.  But the functionality is really already 
there - there is a new maintenance screen type 'NOTICE' that is essentially 
a catch-all for anything you want to generate.  It will be displayed and 
any input fields you set up will be available to the processing function.

Example: you could set up a notice screen that asks the question 'Do you 
like IMP?' and have a radio checkbox for Yes/No.  Then, the processing 
function would actually process the data - saving the response if the 
answer is yes and reasking the question if the answer is no :)

Pseudocode example (would appear in imp/lib/Maintenance/Tasks) --

class Maintenance_Task_impquestion extends Maintenance_Task {

  var $display_type = MAINTENANCE_OUTPUT_NOTICE;

  function describeMaintenance() {
    // 'Do you like IMP?'
    // Radio box field 'imp_answer': YES OR NO
  }

  function doMaintenance() {
    if (Horde::getFormData('imp_answer') == 'YES') {
      // Store data in file
      // exit and continue processing login
    } else {
      // What?  Is this user on crack?  Ask them again
    }
  }

}

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz@bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder