Jay Blanchard wrote:
I'm thinking of setting up an address-book on my server,
but I'm not sure whether to use LDAP or MySQL.
First of all LDAP is not a database, it is a connection protocol that
can connect to many things, most notably Active Directory seems to be
the most popular usage.
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As I understand it, LDAP and MySQL offer two different ways
of setting up a networked address book.
So I take it they can be compared as far as that is concerned.
Actually, I normally run Linux, so Active Directory
would not be a priority for me.
I didn't say LDAP was a database.
However,
Jay Blanchard wrote:
First of all LDAP is not a database, it is a connection protocol that
can connect to many things, most notably Active Directory seems to be
the most popular usage.
Well I don't disagree with you - LDAP = Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol.
Therefore you cannot compare
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From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Timothy Murphy
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 7:02 AM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] RE: Address book - LDAP or MySQL?
Jay Blanchard wrote:
I'm thinking of setting up an address-book on my server,
but I'm not sure whether
i havent worked w/ LDAP and PHP together as of yet; but maybe i can jump in
the conversation and share some of my thoughts on the topic..
in terms of options for Timothy's address book the data for the address book
will need to be stored somewhere.
since Timothy is already using MySQL that
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Erm, have you heard of OpenLDAP? It's probably the widest used one.
AFAIK it's on all OSX machines (used interanlly from what I can gather)
and is very widely used on Linux.
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Yes, and I use it extensively.
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umm...
not sure who posted that ldap isn't a database... ldap isn't a database
like
oracle, mysql, sybase, etc.. it's meant to be a kind of lightweight
database/protocol for establishing user address book kinds of
information,
normally used for user id/auth processes.
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Twas me.
Ed,
Im not sure if OpenLDAP or other can use a different backed, such as MySQL.
I suspect there would be a server to support this, but it would almost
certainly define the table structure in the database of choice. From the
sound of it there are ways to change the information model of X.500
On 6/29/07, Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
As I understand it, LDAP and MySQL offer two different ways
of setting up a networked address book.
So I take it they can be compared as far as that is concerned.
Actually, I normally run Linux, so Active Directory
would
On 6/29/07, Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Twas me. LDAP is not a database it is a protocol for accessing a
directory service which is the abstraction layer for the actual data
repository namespace.
And an LDAP server will typically house said repository namespace. Like
OpenLDAP using
Nathan Nobbe wrote:
On 6/29/07, Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Twas me. LDAP is not a database it is a protocol for accessing a
directory service which is the abstraction layer for the actual data
repository namespace.
And an LDAP server will typically house said repository
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