Re: LDAP

> its database components. Because LDAP is there, and open source working > code is available, it has often been repurposed for other tasks, by > my group among many others. But in fact, there are very few things you > can do with it that you can not do with other tools such as MySQL. The big thing about LDAP is not that it's better but that it's standard. If your PHP code uses LDAP for, say, address book storage all other LDAP programs will be able to share that same data - Netscape, Outlook, Eudora, etc. If you used it for login info, I believe tools have been built for Unix and NT that would allow you to use a single LDAP server for all authentication work, giving people a common login for all of your systems. Again, it's not that it's better for the task but just that so many other people are using it.