[dev] Writing a new module

[Marcus I. Ryan]

Rather than a new module, it would be nice to incorporate this with Vilma if
possible (Marko? Thoughts?).

How you handle the caching, I'll let someone else speak on.  I do want to make
sure that you use a full driver model.  I will be basing my new system on
BIND9 with sdb-ldap and/or bind-dlz and it would be best if I could just
write a driver for the new backends.  That means I won't have zone files for
many/any zones, and more importantly, with dlz I won't even have a reliable
named.conf from which you could determine the available domains.

Just food for thought.

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Quoting Greg <horde at waiting-room.org>:

> Hello
>
> In my way to write a new horde module for DNS administration,
> i am seeking for advices of experienced Horde programmers, in
> order to have a clean and 'horde-compliant' program...
>
> Basically, a user would login and be able to edit the zone
> file for the domains he owns.
> The module would then have to retrieve the domains data from
> the backend, and this data would be organized with classes :
> a class for a zone, and classes for each type of record.
>
> I wonder if it would be a good practice,
> in order not to refetch the domains/zones data every time
> a page is reloaded, to serialize the array carrying all
> theyr instances and put in in $_SESSION, or would it be preferable
> to use Horde's (or something else) cache mecanism ?
> (Basically, i'm not feeling very confident with such 'persistence'
> in web apps in general and with Horde in particular)
>
> Here is globally how i think i will organize the module :
>
> list.php -> Present domain data
> editDomain.php -> Handle form for domain editing
> lib/base.php -> Instantiate Driver and retrieve data (kept in global scope)
> lib/Dnsadmin.php -> 'main' class, instantiated in global scope
>
> Do you think it looks good ?
>
> From which module would you get 'inspiration' for such a thing ?
>
> Thanks a lot for any help
>
> Greg
>
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