Re: [Ilohamail-users] Extended Contact Data

[Jeff N. <je...@ne...>]

Hi Ryo,

Didn't mean for this to take so long.. but I went on vacation and made
an effort to spend as little time in front of a computer as possible.

But now I'm back to work and I've put together that Extended Contact
patch for you.

The included files are all the touched files.  The patch was made 
against the CVS trunk as of today (2004-08-05).

As mentioned previously in this thread, the only upgrade problem I see
is the missing Address field.

Hope this makes it into the trunk.. thanks again for a great webmail client!

Jeff




Ryo Chijiiwa wrote:
> Jeff,
> 
> Sorry for taking forever on this.  I'd like to incorporate your changes
> into IlohaMail, but in 0.9, not 0.8 (my policy is to not require backend
> changes once a version has gone "stable").
> So if you could make the necessary changes to the latest 0.9 files, I'll
> just drop them into the source tree.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ryo
> 
> On 4/17/2004, "Jeff Nichols" <je...@ne...> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hey Everyone,
>>
>>I've modified my installation of IlohaMail (0.8.12) with additional
>>fields for contacts (firstname, lastname, street, city, region,
>>postalcode, country) and a new layout for the edit contact view.  To get
>>an idea, I've included a screenshot.
>>
>>The files I've modified are available for download for those who are
>>interested.  I've only added the relevant labels to the english
>>translation.  There's also a sql script to add the required fields to
>>mysql for anyone who's using the mysql backend.
>>
>>http://www.netnichols.com/downloads/extended_contact.zip
>>
>>The files include:
>>edit_contact.JPG  -> A screen shot of the end result
>>edit_contact.php  -> IlohaMail/source/edit_contact.php
>>contacts.php      -> IlohaMail/source/contacts.php
>>edit_contact.inc  -> IlohaMail/lang/eng/edit_contact.inc
>>ex_contacts.sql   -> MySQL/ex_contacts.sql
>>
>>The only upgrading problem I see is that there is no 'address' field in
>>the new edit layout, so any currently stored address information will
>>not be shown.  A possible solution to this might be to add this field to
>>the layout (possibly read-only?) and tell users to move information to
>>the more detailed address fields.
>>
>>I of course would love if Ryo would see these modifications fit for
>>inclusion in IlohaMail.  Please let me know if there is anyway I could
>>help out with this process.
>>
>>There are two main reasons I had for doing this:
>>
>>1) I didn't like the way the contact edit view looked.  Call me anal,
>>but I can't stand when form fields don't line up.  There are a few other
>>pages I'd like to make similar adjustments to.. the compose view comes
>>to mind.
>>
>>2) My real job is developing a SyncML server.  I have *lots* of
>>experience synchronizing PIM type data, and the existing contact fields
>>didn't lend themselves to this purpose very well.  I plan on extending
>>my SyncML server to handle IlohaMail's contact list to use with my own
>>personal IlohaMail installation.  Unfortunately, because of it being a
>>commercial company and all, I won't be able to give this away.  Maybe
>>some time in the future?? Or maybe I could use one of the open-source
>>SyncML servers instead?  Anyway, perhaps more on that later.. and for
>>those who don't know, SyncML is a standard protocol for synchronization,
>>and most modern mobile phones include a SyncML client.
>>
>>Well, that's about it.  Sorry about the huge post, but I hope some
>>others find this stuff useful.
>>
>>Jeff
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