SquirrelMail Developer's Manual

The SquirrelMail Project Team

Document version: $Revision: 14349 $

1. SquirrelMail overview

• 1.1 The project goals
• 1.2 Project management
• 1.3 The community

2. General guidelines

• 2.1 Coding guidelines
• 2.2 Including files
• 2.3 The base URI funcion
• 2.4 Version numbering
• 2.5 Submitting a patch

3. Internationalization

• 3.1 Supported Languages
• 3.2 The $languages array
• 3.3 XTRA_CODE functions
• 3.4 Display of different charsets
• 3.5 IMAP folder names
• 3.6 Plural forms
• 3.7 Language setup
• 3.8 Time zones
• 3.9 Sanitizing HTML strings

4. Developing plugins

• 4.1 Before embarking
• 4.2 The plugin architecture
• 4.3 The starting point
• 4.4 Hooks
• 4.5 Preferences
• 4.6 Plugin pages called directly by the client browser
• 4.7 Internationalization
• 4.8 Configuration
• 4.9 Versioning
• 4.10 Security considerations
• 4.11 Coding tips
• 4.12 Compatibility with older versions of SquirrelMail
• 4.13 Documentation files
• 4.14 Storing code
• 4.15 Additional Resources
• 4.16 How to release your plugin

5. Project Administration

• 5.1 Webmail Release Instructions
• 5.2 IMAP Proxy Release Instructions
• 5.3 Adding New Languages
• 5.4 Updating Copyright Dates

6. Miscellaneous

• 6.1 Addressbook internals
• 6.2 Creating compose links easily
• 6.3 Collected information about IMAP servers
• 6.4 MIME support introduction
• 6.5 So what is this tree stuff?

Appendix

7. Links

• 7.1 RFC standardization documents