PHP LDAP

Software engineering is not unlike other industrial craft; the actors in each respective trade are engaged in the practice of creating something out of nothing. Often their products are the result of skills within several disciplines. For example, a furniture designer might require knowledge working within wood, metal, and glass, while often a software product s quality is often the function of the software designer s knowledge and experience wor...

In the first installment of this series, I introduced PHP s LDAP functionality, and demonstrated just how easy it was to create PHP scripts that talked to Microsoft s Active Directory product. In this installment, we ll take a look at another language offering great LDAP support: Perl. In true TMTOWTDI (There s More Than One Way To Do It; The official motto of Perl) fashion, several LDAP packages exist for Perl. I ve had the pleasure of experimen...

One of the reasons for PHP s immense popularity is its support for a wide variety of different Internet technologies. It is this support, coupled with the speed with which new language extensions get added to the source tree, that keeps PHP ahead of other competing languages in the same category, and ensures the continuity (and future growth) of the fan following it currently enjoys.

In the first part of this article, I gave you a crash course in the basics of using PHP with LDAP, demonstrating how PHP s built-in support for LDAP makes it easy to query an LDAP directory server for user information. That article also included a detailed discussion of the steps that make up a PHP-to-LDAP session, together with examples demonstrating how those steps play out in the real world.