Thats great news! I will start playing with the ldap stuff monday and review some open tickets for .1-rc1 -Chris

Thomas Bruederli wrote:

Hi everybody,

I just merged the devel-addressbook branch back to trunk and committed it with revision 543. LDAP servers now fully integrate in the address book as additional sources. This merge also introduces some changes in template parsing and the way, a step script sends its data back to browser. There is a new class 'rcmail_template' which handles the template parsing as well as AJAX responses. It should also improve the quoting of HTML and javascript strings.

Testers (and everybody else) are requested to get the latest SVN checkout and test heavily. I will also do a lot of testing in the next couple of days.

Regards, Thomas

P.S. I've set a release date for 0.1-rc1. Help me to get everything done by then!

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Chris Richardson wrote:

Hey Thomas,

I installed the newest svn to start testing the address book and I had a few questions.

1. is it possible to grab more data from ldap or possibly where I might

define some extra data for lookups.

The local address book doesn't currently support more address fields. For now, the LDAP data is stuck to that restriction as well. The extension of the address book is planned and with the new architecture, it should be easy to grab more data from LDAP directories once RC knows how to display them.

2. you wouldnt happen to have a list of changes of the new address book

merge over the old one?

Beside some minor improvements and simplifications, there are two major changes:

1. There is a new class 'rcmail_template' which handles all the template

parsing as well as the AJAX responses. All step scripts just pass their data to $OUTPUT (by calling $OUTPUT->set_env() or $OUTPUT->command()) and finally call $OUTPUT->send('templatename'). This new class is also supposed to handle the output encoding of javascript variables. All data should be passed to $OUTPUT in raw form.

2. The address book now instantiates a class 'rcube_contacts' or

'rcube_ldap' (extends rcube_contacts) according to the selected source. These classes abstract all access to a address source. This new arhitecture should make it easier to add new data sources and it enables the interaction (e.g. copying contacts) between them.

Some more documentation will (hopefully) follow after the release.

~Thomas