Re: Gee, guys, some help, please

Thanks, Rasmus, for your reply. I at least have a clearer idea of what I don't know now, and for that I do truly thank you. I guess I'll have to install the OpenLDAP client code and hope it doesn't conflict with the IBM LDAP client stuff that's already there. I also got a direct personal response from someone with substantive LDAP-PHP linkage and interoperability experience. I have asked him to post this information. Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

1) What implementation(s) of LDAP are supported?

A couple of them should work, but the most commonly used is OpenLDAP. This is of course all explained on http://php.net/ldap which you of course read before asking this, right?

Yes, I *DID* read it and no, it doesn't answer this question. The most it says is: ================== More Information Lots of information about LDAP can be found at

    * Netscape
    * University of Michigan
    * OpenLDAP Project
    * LDAP World

================== Which is generic information about LDAP, not what works with PHP. As I said in my note, most of this web page is programming implementation stuff, NOT installation info. My criticism is meant to be constructive: if PHP wants to be a business class, production-grade application, it needs to be accessible and usable in the most straightforward way possible. Further the deponent sayeth not. ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 sdean@bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035