[dev] Request for comment : new hook to format how various attributes are diaplyed in Turba

[Etienne Goyer]

Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
> Quoting Etienne Goyer <etienne.goyer at linuxquebec.com>:
>> Instead, my idea right now is to build a _turba_hook_display_* hook,
>> which function would be to return HTML snippet for the presentation os a
>> specific attribute.  From what I can see, the only place where I would
>> need to plug this hook is in turba/templates/browse/contactrow.inc.  The
>> patch would be quite trivial.  I guess, beside my formating of fax
>> number, it could also be used to format URL appropriately ('website' and
>> 'freebusyUrl' attribute), extract and format a 'photo' or 'jpegPhoto'
>> attribute from an LDAP directory, etc.
> 
> 
> I'd much rather see this done with custom form types and renderers for 
> those
> types, which Turba ought to be using anyway for proper display of things 
> like
> pictures.

Ok, I will look into that, but ... what do you mean by "custom form 
types and renderers" ?  Do you mean the type as defined in 
turba/config/attributes.php, and the renderer as the code in 
turba/templates/browse/contactrow.inc ?

Thanks !
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