[Samba] Re: swatlib?

John H Terpstra jht at samba.org
Tue Oct 21 05:02:53 GMT 2003


On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Alex wrote:

> Hi John,
>
>    Well... that's a tough one. :-)  I'm under the gun to do some php
> thing with samba's config.  Either template based, or something off of
> loadparm.c.   It just strikes me that the guts of the config file
> loading, saving and parsing are already implemented in C, yet are only
> used in cgi.c by swat.
>    My C is VERY rusty (haven't coded a good solid app in about 8+
> years)...  On the other hand, getting a php module out of that code
> would be pretty sweet and make a lot of people's life easier. :-)
> 	So what I'm gonna do is 2 things.  First, make a little parser bridge
> for testparm's output (php-ize the output and use that for constraints
> checking), and try to make a loadparm lib.. it won't be a try swat
> replacement, just something to deal with samba's config file.. I'll give
> a stab at it.. nothing official. :-)  Unless it a success. :-)

I am lookingforward to your contribution.

Cheers,
John T.

>
> Alex
>
>
> John H Terpstra wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Alex wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>   Anyone have by any chance created a swatlib?  I'm curious about maybe
> >>making a swatlib that can be used as the basis to make a php loadable
> >>module to control Samba's config file....
> >
> >
> > No. Not takers for this yet. SWAT really needs a make-over. Are you
> > interested?
> >
> > - John T.
>
>
>

-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org



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