Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

[kashani]

Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 23:14 -0400, Jim wrote:
>> Can anyone recommend a webmail client?  I am looking for something more modern than
>> SquuirrelMal.  I have been using SquuirrelMal, however I find it the interface too old
>> and outdated.
>>
>> I also looking into the code to see if I could freshen it up.  From a quick look, the
>> code is based on really outdated procedural-style PHP where the code and HMTL is all
>> mushed together resulting in a mess like this in compose.php:
>>
> What other style is there besides procedural?

I had the same sort of thought about six months ago when I switched 
jobs. I handle the infrastructure for a complicated web app now and it 
is definitely not procedural. I tried to troubleshoot some PHP issues 
since I had done some minor work like that at the last job for idiot web 
devs.

ws01 site # more index.php
<?PHP
_load_class('HomePage');

$ui = new HomePage();
$ui->display();

And that's it. Of course you can track class homepage to homepage.class 
which loads mysql.class, forms.class, not to mention the Smarty 
framework with templates and the CSS. My days of simple procedural 
troubleshooting of PHP code intermingled with display code are 
definitely over.

	Moving on to the webmail bit, I like Roundcube as well. My personal 
server is completely overbuilt so it seems as snappy as Squirrel. If 
you're using PHP 4.4, I'd install pecl-apc which should speed things up 
greatly. pecl-apc has *issues* with PHP 5.1.x especially if you're using 
PHP in any sort of object oriented kind of way. I skipped the overly 
complicated Gentoo ebuild/overlay and installed from source. Works fine 
with Mysql 5.0 and PHP 5.1.2 if you're that bleeding edge.

Roundcube is low on features like shared address books and things you 
might find in Horde, but has a nice interface. It's also likely to 
change quite a bit since it's in early beta so it may not be the most 
stable choice.

kashani
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