[imp] Horde/IMP auth from own application

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Matt <testacc at xs4all.nl>:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm using the horde framework for quite a while already and have made some
> changements so I can use it with multiple servers, etc.
>
> Now I have my own small user-interface for some small things, I would like
> to integrate horde into this, or actually the applications that run in
> horde.
>
> The problem is mostly the authentication as far as I have seen the
> questions about this, and so is this my problem too at the moment.
>
> I have read that it's best to auth your own app through the horde
> framework so you can login to the apps or horde after this.
>
> Now this is in most cases, with own written systems, kinda difficult, so I
> was wondering if it's possible to add mailbox info to your own system and
> auth for horde while you login to your own system.

Yes, this is possible. There are two approaches. The cleanest is to  
write a transparent authentication driver that gets the authentication  
information and credentials from your legacy system. Take one of the  
existing transparent drivers like the HTTP driver as a template.
Alternatively you can use one of custom login scripts in  
horde/scripts/*_login.php as a starting point.

> The second question is how to "integrate" horde the best way into your own
> app. I use some simple MVC system I build and I have seen there is a horde
> MVC kinda thing too... now maybe an iframe or an include can fix this too
> ?

Since all Horde apps build their own complete interfaces, an iframe is  
probably the best solution for now.

Jan.

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