Re: ldap_connect error

Richard Lynch wrote: > On Mon, April 18, 2005 2:43 am, Steve Turnbull said: >> I am running a LAMP setup consisting of Debian (testing), PHP4, Apache2, >> and >> MySQL 4. >> >> When I installed php, I used apt-get, and included in the list of modules >> was libapache2_mod_php4 php4 php4-ldap ... >> >> PHP works fine, and a test phpinfo() brings up all of the expected >> parameters (at least I think it does). >> >> The one thing that doesn't work is ldap. I have enabled the ldap modules >> - a2enmod ldap - and this doesn't throw an error, it just prompts for the >> apache restart which in turn restarts fine. >> >> BUT if I run a very simple ldap_connect (see script) I get this error; >> >> Fatal error: Call to undefined function: ldap_connect() >> in /www/stevedev/vhtdocs/ldap/index.php on line 27 >> >> So it appears that the ldap hasn't got itself running with php. >> >> The very simple test script I used was; >> >> $ds = ldap_connect('ldap.<our server>.net'); >> if ($ds) { >> ldap_bind($ds); >> echo 'connected'; >> } else { >> echo 'not connected'; >> } >> >> Has any one got any ideas of why this error get thrown? > > Sounds to me like you've installed: > LDAP > PHP > but you have *not* installed the PHP-LDAP module. > > Search in your apt-get thingie for something like "php_ldap" or "phpldap" > which will be the PHP extension that lets PHP actually use LDAP, as > opposed to just happening to have both LDAP and PHP installed on the same > machine. > Thanks for the reply. I actually sussed it last night - when I installed the packages, It didn't have 'extension=ldap.so' in the php.ini file. Regards Steve