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 Global constants and objects
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**This information is valid for Horde 3 only. See Doc/Dev/Globals for Horde 4 or `Doc/Dev/Globals`_ for Horde 5 and later.**

.. _`Doc/Dev/Globals`: https://wiki.horde.org/Doc/Dev/Globals?referrer=Doc%2FDev%2FGlobalsH3

Horde applications work with a standard set of constants:

+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|HORDE_BASE   |The filesystem location of Horde (defined in each application)|
+=============+==============================================================+
|APP_BASE     |The filesystem location of the application                    |
+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|APP_TEMPLATES|The filesystem location of the application's template files   |
+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|APP_VERSION  |The version number of the application (not a CVS revision tag)|
+-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+


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

+---------+---------------------------------+
|$conf    |The configuration hash           |
+=========+=================================+
|$prefs   |The user preferences             |
+---------+---------------------------------+
|$browser |Information on the client browser|
+---------+---------------------------------+
|$registry|The Horde `Registry`_            |
+---------+---------------------------------+
|$language|The user's preferred language    |
+---------+---------------------------------+


.. _`Registry`: https://wiki.horde.org/Doc/Dev/RegistryH3?referrer=Doc%2FDev%2FGlobalsH3