[horde] Setting date and time preferences

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Jens Wahnes <wahnes at uni-koeln.de>:

> On Thu, Apr 23 2015, at 15:09:57 +0200, Jens Wahnes wrote:
>
>> I tried to use
>>
>> $currentlocale = $scope_ob->get("language");
>>
>> but that doesn't seem to work (there isn't any value set).
>
> After a while, I found a way to work around this. Not a particular
> beautiful way to do it, but it works. In case anyone else is
> interested, here's the function I came up with to select the default
> "24 hour clock" setting based on the current language (or the preferred
> language, if set). Feel free to use it -- or better yet: improve it.

Use $GLOBALS['language'].

>     public function prefs_init($pref, $value, $username, $scope_ob)
>     {
>       // This hook receives the preference name, preference value,  
> username, and
>       // the master scope object (Horde_Prefs_Scope) as parameters  
> and uses the
>       // return value from the hook as the new preference value.
>       //
>       // Username will be null if the user is not authenticated.
>
>       $loglevel="DEBUG"; # available choices: ERR, DEBUG, NOTICE, INFO
>
>
>       Horde::log("prefs_init was called with these parameters:  
> \$pref=$pref, \$value=$value, \$username=$username,  
> \$scope_ob=".print_r($scope_ob,true), $loglevel);
>
>       if ( ($pref == 'twentyFour') && isset($username) ) {
>
>         Horde::log("prefs_init: I'm gonna get you one way ...", $loglevel);
>         $currentlocale = $scope_ob->get("language");
>         if ( ! ($currentlocale) ) {
>           Horde::log("prefs_init: ... or another", $loglevel);
>           $currentlocale = setlocale(LC_TIME, 0); // with second  
> argument '0', it's not setlocale but getlocale, actually
>         }
>         Horde::log("prefs_init: \$currentlocale=$currentlocale", $loglevel);
>
>         if ( strlen($currentlocale) > 5 ) {
>           // not in pure ll_CC format, so throw away the rest, e.g.  
> shorten 'de_DE.UTF-8' to 'de_DE'
>           $currentlocale = substr($currentlocale, 0, 5);
>           Horde::log("prefs_init: shortened \$currentlocale to  
> $currentlocale", $loglevel);
>         }
>
>
>         $twelveHourLocales = array("ar_OM", "ar_SY", "en_US",  
> "en_CA", "el_GR");
>
>         if (in_array($currentlocale, $twelveHourLocales)) {
>           Horde::log("Setting default 24-hour-clock pref to false  
> because of $currentlocale locale", $loglevel);
>           return false;
>         }
>         else {
>           Horde::log("Default 24-hour-clock pref will be set to true  
> because of $currentlocale locale", $loglevel);
>           return true;
>         }
>       }
>
>       return $value; // just as a safeguard
>     }
>
>
>
> Jens



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