[dev] Re: Web-based administration of prefs.php values

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Kevin Myer <kevin_myer at iu13.org>:

> Then the proper place to implement this would be in the Setup portion for
> Administrators?

Makes sense, yes.

> I'm thinking you could add one or two columns.  You have the existing 
> application name in one, and the status for that (which lets you know 
> if something requires a change after an update.  Then you'd have a 
> preferences
> column with a link to change preferences for the application, and a
> preferences status that functions similarly to the configuration 
> status - if something is added, or changed that requires a 
> regeneration of prefs.php, it would be flagged there.  Or you combine 
> the two - just have a preference column that is a link to change 
> preferences or gets a checkbox and it states
> "Preferences need updated" if a change is required.  And take that 
> one step further, use the Setup screen to generate your registry.php.

Sure.

> So something like this:
> "Application"   "Configuration Status"  "Preference Status"
> A               B                       C
>
> Where A lets you enable/disable modules, and specify registry related items
> (like your webroot), B is either a link to do configuration and it 
> changes to a notification, with a link, if Configuration needs 
> updating, and C is the same as B, except for Preferences.

Sounds great.

> I'd think a lot of the code to do this would already be written (at least the
> generation of the preferences widgets) and it would be a matter of modifying
> this to allow entry of additional or new values.  If one of the preferences
> depended on a value provided by another application (like IMP's
> autoexpand/Expand Name functionality depending on sources/preferences defined
> in Turba), have the values pulled from those application preferences, and
> enforce a default order of setting up preferences (i.e. first Horde, then
> Turba, then IMP, etc.)
>
> Just thinking aloud here - concept only at this point :)

Indeed. ;)

-chuck

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