<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >The API</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.52"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="phpGroupWare Docs V0.05" HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Developers Documentation" HREF="p261.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Infrastructure" HREF="devinfra.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Basic functions" HREF="x398.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="CHAPTER" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >phpGroupWare Docs V0.05</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="devinfra.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x398.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="CHAPTER" ><H1 ><A NAME="DEVAPI" >Chapter 25. The API</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="devapi.html#AEN389" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="x398.html" >Basic functions</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="x407.html" >Application Functions</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="x434.html" >File functions</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="x471.html" >Email/NNTP Functions</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN389" >Introduction</A ></H1 ><P > phpGroupWare attempts to provide developers with a useful API to handle common tasks. </P ><P > To do this we have created a multi-dimensional class $phpgw->. </P ><P > This allows for terrific code organization, and help developers easily identify the file that the function is in. All the files that are part of this class are in the <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >inc/core</TT > directory and are named to match the sub-class. </P ><P > Example:<TT CLASS="CLASSNAME" >$phpgw->send->msg()</TT > is in the <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >inc/phpgwapi/phpgw_send.inc.php</TT > file. </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="devinfra.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="book1.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x398.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Infrastructure</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="p261.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Basic functions</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >