Re: [Postfixadmin-devel] refactoring

[David G. <da...@co...>]

> 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.
 
Anyone's welcome; but your more welcome if you contribute code :)

> 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.
 
ZF sounds fine; I was reading the docs for Zend_Db_Table 
the other day. My only issue is that I'd like to aim for a
xmlrpc/soap interface, which means you can't have objects as
return types or parameters to methods.

My dummy code for what I wanted to achieve already uses PDO.

I think xmlrpc/soap would be very useful for people wanting to
integrate postfixadmin with e.g. squirrelmail /
insert-other-email-client-here. At the moment they have to duplicate
code which isn't very good.

Presumably xmlrpc/soap will allow others to integrate postfixadmin in
ways I've not yet considered.

> 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 anymore anyway and should be outdated soon.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.
 
Yes, I have no problem with dropping PHP4 compatibility.

> 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).
 
We're working towards an MVC approach. The views are already seperate,
so it's just a case of fixing the controller/model section.

Some sort of plugin architecture sounds like a good idea.

> 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..
 
I can't sorry. I delete most email on this account once it is older
than a few weeks.

David.


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