5punk

I was wondering if anyone has some ideas how to get php to work with an LDAP server...
I've installed the ldap module, and with a bit of fiddling just about connected it to an exchange server, but it doesn't need to be exchange if its easier with something else. Anyway, it doesn't seem to be able to read any data and errors all over the place. Guides on the net seem rather scant on details.

I just need to be able to add & remove email addresses to the ldap server, thats it.
Anyone tried doing anything like that?

can exchange serve LDAP?

i know it can read from AD or LDAP but never come across it that way round


EDIT

google says LDAP and exchange share some ports and can fight

a real LDAP server or AD might be more fruitful


something to bear in mind with AD, it won't give any information out until you 'bind' with a valid username and password

Ah sorry yes i meant active directory, not exchange.

I have successfully got it to bind, but that is all

can you get it working with another client?

( http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~gawor/ldap/ )

appears not, i get a list error there when i tried. but narf i know so little about ldap that that app is rather confusing.

hmmm

well, i've exhausted my LDAP expertise too, i'm afraid


i found wireshark/ethereal quite handy, it give you pretty good error messages

okies, not to worry. cheers dude.
I'll have to keep trying

Does this example work?

http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/ldap.examples.php

also, it might be worth checking the security log on the AD server, as it might want encryption or something?

Afraid I can't help much either, I've used phpLDAPadmin: "LDAP browser to manage your LDAP server" - in the past with OpenLDAP , maybe check out the source code for phpLDAPadmin for inspiration (or just use it)

p.s. LDAP's a bitch with dn this and dc & cn that - then throw MS into the mix for AD support and well.... There's a reason I stay away from it as much as possible

Got any jam?

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Got any jam?

That was about to be my suggestion too, although I'm unsure as to how jam could be applied to software, and I'm not sure how you could discern where the eyes are either.

You'd have to cover the whole thing just to be sure

Well that's part of the problem - when it comes to software, what do you cover?

On a less 5punk and jam related note, what is it that you're trying to connect from? Is it a CMS or something?

its a web based management system i am writing to provide an interface to deal with some hardware spam filters.

Basically the spam firewalls need an ldap server to query, to ensure that email coming in only goes to genuine users.

My web app keeps an sql db of users details, sorts out payments etc and keeps a list of their registered domains & emails, which i want to push into (and pull from) an ldap server for the firewall to use.

i have found a vmware vmdk of openldap server & all its requirements.
Will try to get that up and running next, just to see if it is AD's quirkyness causing the issues.

On a side note:

PHP is the devils language. Not to mention the function explaination library on php.net is extremely minimalistic.

/is doing a calender application for Uni which is using MySQL.

Thread derailment over, carry on.

buzzmong wrote:PHP is the devils language.

It became the de facto linux web server standard, fuck knows why, I think it's weak compared to many others personally.

Microsoft's implementation of LDAP is quirky at best, I'd start with a Unix LDAP server and Softerra's LDAP browser to check I had the parameters right, then progress from there.