[turba] LDIF support for turba?

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Tue Oct 26 14:30:33 PDT 2004


Quoting Ross Becker <ross at rbecker.org>:

>     I'm curious if anyone is planning LDIF support for turba. I saw
> someone else asking about it. It would be greatly useful, as LDIF is now
> becoming a very standard addressbook import/export format. I looked at
> the format a bit myself to see about coding it, and it looked like it
> would be something of a pain to implement.  On the other hand, if you
> attempt to use CSV to import/export addressbooks from other mailers,
> most end users are going to get lost when it comes to "mapping" the
> fields.  Not to mention that "mapping" the fields does not address
> issues where one field for turba (say, home or work address) is several
> fields in the import source.

I know of no plans, but you can always put in an enhancement ticket at
bugs.horde.org. Patches are even better; looks like
http://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net/ might be a place to start to look 
for LDIF
code.

-chuck

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