Re: SQL Databases?

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@openldap.org>]

Robbie Stone wrote:
> 
> Hmm...yeah I had thought about that. My ideas were sort of jumbled though,
> basically here's what I wanted to do:
> 
> I wanted the ability to sync my pilot with a LDAP server then be able to
> retrieve it with my netscape communicator addressbook, aswell as setup
> some scripts in procmail to search through the incoming mail, and if it
> found a name which matched 'critical' or 'important' in the database it
> would automagically send a page to my PCS phone, It's a little crazy, but
> If I could pull it off it would be *really cool* and *useful*, as well as
> *productive*, but just to make things difficult I wanted the ability to
> pull up those addresses in IMP, the IMAP Webmail program,
> http://web.horde.org/imp/. Now I guess that as long s I used Netscape
> to access IMP I'd have them, but that's a littlee hopeful, since remote
> access was my motivation for IMP. I guess I might be able to use a non-SQL
> databse, but lemme go check if PHP3 supports it.......

Why not just hack IMP to use LDAP.  PHP3 has builtin LDAP support and, in fact,
can use the OpenLDAP API just fine.

Kurt