Hello everyone, I would like to know whether it is appropriate to use an LDAP server like slapd in order to realize a dynamic directory. "Dynamic directory" being one, which is essentially being generated on-the-fly out of data which is stored on the ldap server. My thought was to implement a directory for movies which looks something like this (for the sake of my own sanity, being a new user and all, I use "\" in order to express depth): ------------------ .\newest movies .\all movies .\by genre\action .\by genre\comedy ...
.\by year\1987 .\by year\1988 ... .\by director\Charles Chaplin .\by director\Tatsuya Ishihara ... .\by title\A .\by title\B ... ------------------ Essentially all entries for movies are stored inside "all movies". Now there would be two approaches in order to have a movie inside for example the "by year\1988" node - either by actually creating the entry "by year\1988" and storing kind of a link to the actual movie entry as a child, or by completely having the "by year" node dynamically generated out of the data which is inside the "all movies" node. Now I'm not entirely sure as to which way would be best - or in fact - whether they even are possible at all or whether a different approach than using an ldap server would be better. The motivation behind it, is to connect an ftp to the ldap server, which will retrieve the directory structure and display it to the user connected to the ftp server. Would love to hear any opinions on this. Regards, Thomas K. --- You are currently subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE as the SUBJECT of the message.
