Tickets :: Comment on [#9554] store multiple email addresses as separate 'mail' attributes in LDAP

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Comment	>> 1) The email form field always returns a single value, though we >> could of course split this up again, or add an option to return an >> array instead. >> 2) But more important, there isn't any way in Turba to store one >> field into several attributes. We do have composite fields, but these >> store in a fixed number of different attributes, not in a >> variable number of the same attribute. There is no infrastructure >> for that at all, so this is a larger undertaking. > > Is this necessary at all? > As far as I can say, the emails (multi_value) field works fine with > IMP and ActiveSync. > > It works with ActiveSync in the expected way, the first three email > addresses from emails are provided as email1, email2 and email3 to an > activesync device and read this way from the device. (three email > address are the limit of activesync) > > this happens ins turba/lib/Driver.php at line 2690: > case 'emails': > $address = 1; > foreach (explode(',', $value) as $email) { > while ($address <= 3 && > $message->{'email' . $address . 'address'}) { > $address++; > } > if ($address > 3) { > break; > } > $message->{'email' . $address . 'address'} = $email; > $address++; > } > break; > > A smiliar code snippet is there for vcards. > > For LDAP I find the "array_merge" inside the _read function off > Ldap.php. In funtion _write, there is nothing. > > My suggestions: > > 1) generic version > at line 304: > if source is comma seperated array and target mutli value > for i in array ... > this one might be dangerous with other fields als children/child > > 2) > Or a hardcoded version just for "emails" > somehow ugly but works and no side effects > > 3) > in backends.local.php the opportunity/example for 2) > > My php skills are just not good enough at the moment :(
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