Execmethod

alexmay 2009-08-30 15:27:52 UTC #1

I’ve just started trying to understand how egroupware works and I got stuck on about the second line of code!
I was looking at index.php in the felamimail directory.
This contains a function call execmethod(’…’);
I looked up execmethod on php.net and found nothing so I figured it must be a custom function.
I therefore searched the whole of my egroupware directories to find its definition.
The only thing I found was another call in emailadmin/index.php.
Hunting around, I came across ExecMethod which is defined and discussed etc.
Can someone tell me what is going on here?
Is this a mistake/bug? Is execmethod defined elsewhere? Or is php not case sensitive?
Would much appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Alex

Leithoff_Klaus 2009-08-31 08:12:11 UTC #2

it should be ExecMethod if all was right.
but there are more than one way to get an eGroupware App running,…
Have a look at filemanager or tracker.

Ralf_Becker_6 2009-09-01 05:36:54 UTC #3

http://www.egroupware.org/egwdoc/nav.html?phpgwapi/inc/common_functions.inc.php.html#execmethod

alexmay schrieb:

I’ve just started trying to understand how egroupware works and I got stuck
on about the second line of code!
I was looking at index.php in the felamimail directory.
This contains a function call execmethod(’…’);
I looked up execmethod on php.net and found nothing so I figured it must be
a custom function.
I therefore searched the whole of my egroupware directories to find its
definition.
The only thing I found was another call in emailadmin/index.php.
Hunting around, I came across ExecMethod which is defined and discussed etc.
Can someone tell me what is going on here?
Is this a mistake/bug? Is execmethod defined elsewhere? Or is php not case
sensitive?
Would much appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Alex

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alexmay 2009-09-01 05:55:06 UTC #4

Thanks for the comments.
The first seems to be saying that I am right that this is a bug.
Unfortunatly, I don’t understand the rest of that comment.
I couldn’t find the tracker or filemanager. I’m probably not looking in the right place,
but the comment was somewhat brief.
As for the last comment, the link is useful, but does it answer the questions?

ralfbecker:

http://www.egroupware.org/egwdoc/nav.html?phpgwapi/inc/common_functions.inc.php.html#execmethod

alexmay schrieb:

I’ve just started trying to understand how egroupware works and I got stuck
on about the second line of code!
I was looking at index.php in the felamimail directory.
This contains a function call execmethod(’…’);
I looked up execmethod on php.net and found nothing so I figured it must be
a custom function.
I therefore searched the whole of my egroupware directories to find its
definition.
The only thing I found was another call in emailadmin/index.php.
Hunting around, I came across ExecMethod which is defined and discussed etc.
Can someone tell me what is going on here?
Is this a mistake/bug? Is execmethod defined elsewhere? Or is php not case
sensitive?
Would much appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Alex

–
Ralf Becker
Director Software Development

Stylite GmbH
[open style of IT]

Morschheimer Strasse 15
67292 Kirchheimbolanden

fon +49 (0) 6352 70629-0
fax +49 (0) 6352 70629-30
mailto: rb@stylite.de

www.stylite.de
www.egroupware.org

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Nigel Vickers und Ralf Becker
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Ralf_Becker_6 2009-09-01 06:06:48 UTC #5

EGroupware has an own way of instantiating a class and call a method of
the instantiated class: you see it eg. in the url’s like:

/index.php?menuaction=app.class.method

This (checks that the user has the right to use application “app”),
includes class “class” defined in /app/inc/class.class.inc.php,
instantiates it and calls method “method” of the instantiated class.

ExecMethod or ExecMethod2 allows to use the same menuaction string as
first parameter, to call the given method.

In newer code we mostly use auto loadable class names like app_class,
which allow to call static methods without ExecMethod and the need to
instantiate a class first: app_class::method($param)

There’s also an old factory method used to include a class and
instancate it: CreateObject($app_class) with $app_class is an
application and a class name separated by a dot, eg “app.class”.

Anyway applications reside in subdirectories in EGroupware.

Ralf