Re: Web Interface

Hi Markus,

On Tue, 23 May 2006 you wrote:

 >> user's preferences could be stored there as PHP code and sucked in and
 >> executed as necessary.
 >> 
 >> Does this seem reasonable?

 > This certainly would not hurt. Other interfaces might use such a field for
 > similar purposes, whereas e.g. a command line interface would simply ignore
 > this field. Implementing this would require two changes:

That sounds reasonable.  For other interfaces to use it, best would be
to give it a generic format.  Something like:

        Key = Val

entries.  In that case, it would be the responsibility of the user
interface to find the keys that it needs, parse them, and assign
default values to keys that it can't find.  Storing this field as PHP
code would cause grief for other user interfaces.  Some of the keys
would likely be user interface specific, but others could be
standardised.  This would allow appropriate user prefs to be preserved
across change of user interface.  A typical example, would be the
default RIS fields to display when entering a new entry.

Sandy


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