RE: [PEAR-DEV] Imap Backend Propsal

>Use a URI style abstraction: > >imap://user:pass@mail.yourhost.com:110/pop3/notls#INBOX > >You could even use Net_URL if you really wanted to get all the relevant >parts. > >Richard Heyes I have given this a try as it is, but the URL doesn't work when passed to imap_open, the server portion of the URL must be enclosed in curly braces and the user and password arguments are passed separately. I also tried several variations based on the specification articles that I read. I don't think it would be too much work for the user to visit the imap_open docs which shows all the possible variations for different servers. I could pre-define each possible variation of connection methods and define constants for the user to pass. Like so... connect ( $user, $pass, $mode = 0, $server = 'localhost', //(if null default to localhost) $port = 0, //(if null use default port for protocol) $folder = 'INBOX', //(if null default to INBOX) $utf7 = false //(false by default (imap_utf7_encode)) ) $mode options... MAIL_IMAP_IMAP '{'.$server.':'.$port.'}'.$folder; MAIL_IMAP_POP3 '{'.$server.':'.$port.'/pop3}'.$folder; MAIL_IMAP_POP3_NOTLS MAIL_IMAP_IMAP_SSL '{'.$server.':'.$port.'/imap/ssl}'.$folder; MAIL_IMAP_POP3_SSL_NO_VALIDATE '{'.$server.':'.$port.'/pop3/ssl/novalidate-cert}'; MAIL_IMAP_NNTP '{'.$server.':'.$port.'/nntp}comp.test'; MAIL_IMAP_SPECIFY (define the entire connection in the $server arg) ...etc... Using the above the program can be set-up to default to an IMAP server on localhost running on port 143. Do you think this would make it easier to specify this argument, or further confuse things? Best Regards, Richard York