[dev] Newbie

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

I'm cc:ing the dev list on this mail to keep the whole dev community  
in the loop; I hope you don't mind. I'd prefer conversations to stay  
on list to involve other developers as well if you're comfortable with  
that.

Quoting Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales <raphael.melo21 at gmail.com>:

> In my first e-mail, it sounded like I didn't know anything of either.
> I'm already familiar with LDAP. I don't now all it's funcionalities,
> but I know enough to maintain a functional directory. Horde is really
> the one I'd need to learn everything about.

Okay, great. :)

> My idea is to make an application to manage the data from an LDAP
> server and make an API for integration with other Horde applications.

What kind of integration with other Horde apps do you see being  
possible? I certainly see a lot of possibilities if there was an LDAP  
driver layer that could be re-used, but I'm not sure about how other  
Horde apps would make use of an LDAP management app?

> I'd like to avoid using anything that doesn't come bundled with PHP,
> so it would ease up the installation process.

Okay. So no Net_LDAP, and you'd be writing some sort of utility layer  
to either go into the framework packages (under/in addition to  
Horde_LDAP) or a library that'd be part of your app?

> Perhaps on a long term, allow users to manage more complex  
> operations, like permissions and replication servers.

With permissions, it'd be very interesting to see if a Perms_ldap  
backend (to the Horde permissions system) would be possible. There is  
already an LDAP Groups backend.

> And I think a mentor would help me design the API.

Yes, absolutely.

-chuck

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