Monday, April 19, 2010

The Horde Application Framework

Horde Project is about creating high quality Open Source applications, based on PHP and the Horde Framework.

The Horde Application Framework is a general-purpose web application framework in PHP, providing classes for dealing with preferences, compression, browser detection, connection tracking, MIME handling, and more. Horde Application Framework using it, from the widely used webmail program IMP to the contact manager ‘Turba’, the calendar manager ‘Kronolith’, and many others. Horde makes heavy use of PEAR, the PHP Extension and Application Repository.


PEAR is a set of reusable PHP components providing things such as Logging, Database abstraction, and much more. The Horde applications are written in PHP, a scripting language explicitly designed to be embedded in web pages. PHP can be embedded directly into the web server, with plugins for not just Apache but also IIS, Sun Web Server, etc. Here is some links that related to this post


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