[BlueOnyx:25639] Re: BlueOnyx 5211R development - progress report

[Michael Stauber]

Hi all,

Another progress report on the BlueOnyx 5211R development:

The two most complicated GUI modules have just been ported entirely to 
the new GUI format:

base-vsite
base-user

These two aren't the only finished modules so far, but they took the 
most time due to plenty of complications. Most of the GUI pages of these 
two modules use Extensions. Which are modular page snippets to insert 
into main GUI pages in a modular fashion to display and handle form data 
for individual elements.

The whole extension management had to be ported first and then all 
extensions and next the individual GUI pages.

That also brought up some fundamental issues like the fact that the PHP 
functions each() and strftime() are either deprecated or have been 
outright removed from PHP-8.1. We used each() in a few ancient libraries 
form the Cobalt days in a while <-> each fashion. Which was even slower 
than simply using for(...) instead. That was easy to fix.

However, the deprecation of strftime() was a real bummer. I mean: COME 
ON! Converting date and times from one format to another like from Linux 
timestamp to a date formatted in German, Danish, Spanish or English 
(etc.) is already an endeavor in itself. But doing so in the new 
IntlDateFormatter() (the function that replaced it) is even more 
ridiculous. <sigh>

I lost two days over that one alone, until I said "Fuck it!" and used 
the composer-package php81_bc/strftime that replicates the deprecated 
strftime() as closely as possible via a PHP Class.

With that out of the way the whole Vsite and User management is now 
working in 5211R, including the more exotic stuff like ImapSync, 
vacation messages, autoresponders and reseller management.

There are still plenty of pages left to convert, but these are mostly 
straight up wham/bam jobs with simple forms and simple submit 
transactions. So that should get finished fairly soon.

So ... it's moving forward at a pretty good pace right now.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber