[dev] Two suggestions about the IMP summary

[Etienne Goyer]

Thank you so much Jan for pointing it out.  It may seem obvious, but I 
have been banging my head on the subject for quite a while.  For those
interested, I included my stupid little email-displaying block and a patch
to registry.php that make it work.


On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:10:46AM +0200, Jan Schneider wrote:
> Zitat von Etienne Goyer <etienne.goyer at linuxquebec.com>:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:35:55PM +0200, Jan Schneider wrote:
> > > The portal has always been build from Horde_Blocks so you could always
> > add
> > > your own blocks.
> >
> > Reading portal.php, line 67 :
> >
> > $block = $registry->callByPackage($item['app'], 'block',
> > $item['params']);
> >                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > lead me to believe that block are a by-app thing.  Maybe I am just
> > misreading the code. If not, how to create one ?  Do they have to be
> > defined in some config file, or I just write the code in
> > <app>/lib/Block/ and it will automagically appear ?
> 
> Not (yet) automagically. You have to add an "applet" entry to registry.php.
> 
> Jan.
> 
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--- config/registry.php.dist.orig	Tue Sep 23 10:06:22 2003
+++ config/registry.php.dist	Tue Sep 23 10:06:46 2003
@@ -579,3 +579,8 @@
     'type' => 'iframe',
     'default' => 'http://slashdot.org/'
 );
+
+$this->applets['email'] = array(
+    'name' => 'Email',
+    'type' => 'email'
+);
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<?php
/**
 * $Id$
 *
 * @package Horde
 */
class Horde_Block_email extends Horde_Block {

    /**
     * Constructor.
     */
    function Horde_Block_email($params = array())
    {
        $this->_params = $params;
        $this->_app = 'horde';
        $this->_type = 'email';
    }

    /**
     * Does this block have any user editable parameters?
     *
     * @return boolean  True is there are editable parameters.
     *                  False if there are not.
     */
    function isEditable()
    {
        return false;
    }

    /**
     * The title to go in this block.
     *
     * @return string   The title text.
     */
    function _title()
    {
        return _("Your email address");
    }

    /**
     * The content to go in this block.
     *
     * @return string   The content
     */
    function _content()
    {
        global $prefs;
        return $prefs->getValue('from_addr'); 
    }

}