On Aug 4, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
--On Friday, August 04, 2006 4:09 PM -0400 Tim Crouch
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am beating my head against the wall because I cannot find something
simple:
I need a web form that a user can enter something unique (DOB, ID,
etc.)
then the backend (cgi,perl, whatever) will search my directory and
return
their uid. I can script everything using ldapsearch on the
command line
and use cut, etc. however, I am lost on how to pass the user
input to the
ldapsearch variable then return the results in a web page. Anyone
doing
this?
You mean something like:
<http://stanfordwho.stanford.edu>
?
which takes the user input, searches the directory, and returns the
results in a formatted web page?
Ooh - you index for approx? Do you have any sense of how well
that works for people? I set that up in our first white pages
directory, in U Mich 3.3, but thought the results didn't look
very good, we never promoted it and haven't indexed for it for
years.
Our current web page uses PHP. An engineer here supposedly
wrote it during a boring meeting, though of course it has had
some further work and actually is one of the more heavily used
pages. We're re-implementing in C, after a number of frustrations
with the way the PHP program handles quotes and so forth in the
data (e.g., O'Flaherty), among other difficulties that may not
be so clearly related to choice of implementation language.
Donn Cave, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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