Re: [PHP] LDAP in php

2008-04-04 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nathan Nobbe schrieb: and its a little more complicated to map to sql than one might initially suspect http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/intro.html#LDAP%20vs%20RDBMS Yes, that's why I decided to try a php LDAP

Re: [PHP] LDAP in php

2008-04-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Richard Lynch schrieb: You probably wouldn't run it through Apache, but you probably COULD run an LDAP server of sorts using http://php.net/sockets Yes... this starts to sound as a solution... Sorry, I hope I do not sound lazy, I just need a bit of a help to locate the starting point. I

Re: [PHP] LDAP in php

2008-04-03 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am 100% aware of the fact that LDAP is a read optimized database (though I am not sure where this optimization goes when back end is PostgreSQL, for example - the LDAP commands seem simple and re-writing them into SQL

Re: [PHP] LDAP in php

2008-04-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nathan Nobbe schrieb: I am 100% aware of the fact that LDAP is a read optimized database (though I am not sure where this optimization goes when back end is PostgreSQL, for example - the LDAP commands seem simple and re-writing them into SQL can't be so much overhead; the

Re: [PHP] LDAP in php

2008-04-01 Thread Richard Lynch
On Sun, March 30, 2008 8:15 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As LDAP can have SQL back-end (I saw an example with PostgreSQL) - is it a very wild idea to implement (a simple) LDAP server in php? We have all the address data already in PostgreSQL and a php application managing all of it. I am

Re: [PHP] LDAP in php

2008-03-31 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chris schrieb: If ldap can already use a database backend, just use the normal ldap_* functions to do all of the work, don't re-invent it all. http://www.php.net/ldap Just wanted to avoid installing and maintaining a LDAP server and mapping all the data. Perhaps I am underestimating it,

Re: [PHP] LDAP in php

2008-03-30 Thread Chris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As LDAP can have SQL back-end (I saw an example with PostgreSQL) - is it a very wild idea to implement (a simple) LDAP server in php? We have all the address data already in PostgreSQL and a php application managing all of it. I am thinking of simple uses, such as