Global constants and objects

This information is valid for Horde 5 and later only. See Doc/Dev/GlobalsH4 for Horde 4 or Doc/Dev/GlobalsH3 for Horde 3.

Horde applications work with a standard set of constants:

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|HORDE_BASE     |The filesystem location of Horde                                                                 |
+===============+=================================================================================================+
|[APP]_BASE     |The filesystem location of the application's base ([APP] = name of current application)          |
+---------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|[APP]_TEMPLATES|The filesystem location of the application's template files ([APP] = name of current application)|
+---------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+


Applications work with a number of standard global variables and object:

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|$browser     |Information on the client browser (Horde_Browser object)                                                   |
+=============+===========================================================================================================+
|$cli         |CLI object (Horde_Cli object; only if running in CLI mode)                                                 |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|$conf        |The configuration hash                                                                                     |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|$injector    |The injector instance; used to inject dependencies into various framework libraries (Horde_Injector object)|
+-------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|$language    |The user's preferred language                                                                              |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|$notification|The notification handler (Horde_Notification_Handler object)                                               |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|$page_output |The page output helper object (Horde_PageOutput object)                                                    |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|$prefs       |The user preferences (Horde_Prefs object)                                                                  |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|$registry    |The Horde Registry (Horde_Registry object)                                                                 |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+