[horde] Setting Default Preferences Before First Login

[Brian Spraker]

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> From: Vilius Šumskas <vilius at lnk.lt>
>To: horde at lists.horde.org 
>Sent: Monday, February 6, 2012 5:49 AM
>Subject: Re: [horde] Setting Default Preferences Before First Login
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>> I have a similar situation as you have.
>> 
>> Did a mysqldump of the data, and lo-and-behold, the data is readable...
>> 
>> Based on the mysqldump result I did successfully insert new data into the
>> database even though the field is a binary - blob field now.
>> 
>> I tested this with a test account on my test webmailserver, and the user
>> preferences set through the script I made worked without any problem.
>
>Why so complicated? As Gunnar already pointed out, you should be using prefs.local.php or hooks. It's much easier, cleaner and less over engineering.
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Thank you for the responses.  This is exactly what I did.  I added another file in the horde/config/prefs.d folder with some of the preferences.  I also did have to update the imp/config/prefs.php file directly to get some of the settings to stick for some reason (even though I had them sent in the horde/config/prefs.d folder - maybe it is because they needed to be in the imp/config/prefs.d folder instead?).

Either way, doing the default preferences there was pretty easy - and that prevents one more MySQL import for each user created.

However, I didn't really find any good documentation about updating the preferences and making your own.  The big question I had was - how do you know what to put in the preferences file?  All of them start with:

$_prefs['application']['attribute'] = '<preference config>'

But there isn't a good document/listing anywhere that provides all of the different preferences that can be set and their settings.

Either way, I have a fully functioning Horde 4 install and everything is working great.  The last bit causing an issue - is I don't have the vacation/auto-reply ability now.  I guess I could code a quick page that asks for username, password, whether to turn the auto-responder on or off, and the note.  Then it would just link to the current database that already has all of that set.


Brian S.