Re: OpenLDAP as a 'generic' hierarchical data store

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Lorenzo Pastrana wrote:
> Let me warn you that LDAP support in PHP is poor and, AFAIK, little 
>
> > maintained, not to mention development.
>
>
> Beeing a complete new comer I'm not sure to get how 'poor' you feel PHP
> support is ...
>
> Could yo ube a little more specific ?
>
> Does this mean almost unusable / broken ?
> Or does this mean so archaic / low level you can't use it without
> spending some time baking a more coder friendly API ?

- you can't perform LDAP modify operations on multiple operations with 
multiple operation types (e.g. combinations of add, replace, delete); 
this is crucial for atomic modifications
- braindead handling of binary vs. string data
- limited, undocumented access to response structure
- no support for asynchronous operations
- no support for LDAPv3 extensibility (exops, controls)

Note that most of the above has always been available in a decent manner 
in the corresponding C API.

p.


Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
OpenLDAP Core Team

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