Re: [Postfixadmin-devel] refactoring

[Guido 'l. B. <g....@le...>]

Hi everyone,

i just subscribed to the list. I've seen the recent
"Refactoring" thread in the archives and would like to
participate if anybody is interested.

What would you guys think about using ZendFramework [1]
for the ORM [2] and validation part at least? I've done
various small to midsize projects with ZF recently and
had a pretty positive impression about the documentation
(good examples, ..) and the structure and robustness of
the code. It could probably ease the hassle with PG-
vs. MySQL since it comes with a pretty much complete
database abstraction layer.

Of course this would be PHP5 only, but i don't think this
is really an issue since PHP4 isn't officially supported
anymore anyway and should be outdated soon. Moving to
PHP5 would allow for various other improvements like
and exception-based error-handling throughout the source.

Maybe it would be a good idea to consider an MVCed [3]
rework of the interface, too, and think up a way how to
integrate some kind of module-/plugin-system for
additional functions which extend the core-functionality
(managing a set of domains/aliases/mailboxes inside an
sql-database).

I was thinking about adding a searchable maillog for
Domain-Admins for example, which would include rejects/
bounces/... from /var/log/maillog for the domains in
question, something i would consider a typical plugin
use-case. Vacation, Fetchmail and broadcast-msgs would
imho make good candidates for being "outsourced" as
plugins as well.

On an unrelated note, can someone provide me with an
(maildir-) archive of postfixadmin-devel? It seems like
sourceforge itself doesn't provide any downloads and i
like to have archives searchable in my mailclient..

[1] http://framework.zend.com/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_mapping
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller

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