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Month: February 2012

  • Horde 5 is coming / Horde 3 support ends

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    Horde 5 planned for April 2012 / Horde 3 Support ends / OpenSUSE 12.2 will get Horde 5 if schedule permits / Horde 3 dropped from factory / Eleusis dropped

  • Horde Config: How to fill dropdowns with application data with configspecial

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    Horde provides system wide customisation and configuration of applications through php configuration files. These files can be edited by hand or written from an administrator config UI. This ui is automatically generated from a file called conf.xml located in your $application/config/ directory. The config xml allows dropdowns, multiselect fields, tick boxes, radio buttons and even…

  • The Author

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    The author is a developer and trainer in perl and PHP with several years of professional experience in both areas. While leaning strongly towards solutions involving the horde framework he also solved problems with perl catalyst, moose, CakePHP, wordpress, facebook api, PHP Symfony and Zend Framework. Get my GPG key for secure communication. —–BEGIN PGP…

  • Distributed applications with Horde 4

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    Synopsis Horde’s powerful RPC API has been used numerous times to allow integration of horde-based data into external applications or remote sites. It also provides an easy to set up basis for distributed applications with headless workers. In this article I will give you a brief introduction on how to build a scalable distributed architecture…