Re: LDAP HOWTO underway - Please through in your ideas.

[Mark Wilcox <mewilcox@unt.edu>]

Hi,
I have started one too at
http://www.mjwilcox.com/ldap/

It's very early stages. It's written in JAVA, uses the JFC and Netscape JAVA
LDAP SDK. I'll be working on an improvement for next spring.

Mark

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

> > - Clients
> >   - It's difficult to find a client for creating, updating, or
> >     visualizing a database.  There are search clients galore, but a
> >     simple, extendable client to use for actually updating the database
> >     via LDAP (as opposed to LDBM) would be wonderful.  Even more
> >     wonderful would be an OpenSource client that comes with the
> >     OpenLDAP distribution that is maintained with it.  This is
> >     a project that i would certainly contribute to in any way that
> >     i can.  (A JNDI Java applet would be way cool. A cgi form based
> >     client would be plenty)
>
> It is easy to create a web-based client using PHP (www.php.net). OpenLDAP
> links cleanly into PHP and works very well.  I started one here:
>
>   http://ldap.lerdorf.on.ca
>
> But it isn't quite finished yet as I just needed something simple for a
> demonstration.  I have a tonne of other things on my plate right now.  If
> someone wants to take over and write a general-purpose client based on
> this code, please contact me and I will help you out along the way.  I can
> also provide you with the LDAP chapter on an upcoming O'Reilly PHP book
> which should contain all the documentation needed to write yourself a
> web-based LDAP client.
>
> -Rasmus