Comments on: Fitting LDAP to WordPress-mu

By: sam

sam — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:10:41 +0000

Justin: PHP itself has no problem with LDAP integration (provided you have the relevant modules installed!) the problems I’m discussing here are more around taking existing apps which use their own user store in MySQL (or whatever) and modifying them to work with external authentication providers…

Ajay: this post is SPECIFICALLY about wordpress-mu – for vanilla wordpress please see the main wordpress plugins directory.

Generally speaking I’d say these efforts are starting to come together with other identity management solutions spanning OpenID, OAuth, LDAP, SSO etc etc and associated plugins for a range of web-applications to enable all these services with appropriate levels of security, access control and so forth. Solutions like Atlassian’s Crowd is one possibility – but in the PHP space I’ve not seen anything which quite lives up to my current dreams. I’ll be busy then…

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:59:51 +0000

“is it possible to integrate WordPress with LDAP?”… so you are basically asking if PHP can interface with LDAP. I know many other languages can (CF, ASP, .NET) integrate with LDAP in real-time. Pretty cool stuff when you start to think about the corporate applications. But I don’t know if PHP can. I would also be interested in this answer if anyone can offer some help.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:44:01 +0000

Hi,

is it possible to integrate WordPress with LDAP?
if yes,

please specify the steps followed….

Thanks in advance

By: sam

sam — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:37:03 +0000

Tarik – sorry but this really isn’t the place for that kind of thing… Hope you figured it out in the end

By: Tarik Arrad

Tarik Arrad — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:49:48 +0000

Hi, I’ve just tried installing wordpress mu 1.2.1 and the version 1.0.0_2
of the ldap plugin on apache 2.2.4 and PHP 5.2.4 (Windows Server 2003 +
Active Directory), and straight after installing the files I get the
following when I try to go to any pages in wordpress:

Dock()) { return LDAP_ERROR_CONNECTION; } // Set up the search stuff
$attributes_to_get = array (“fullName”, “mail”, “givenName”, “sn”,
“phone”); if (get_site_option(‘ldapLinuxWindows’)) { //Linux

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By: Ruairi Hickey

Ruairi Hickey — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:07:27 +0000

Hi,
Me again, it was actually at line 132 (first line of search function) I think it may be as I am using anonymous bind/searching so the first search on the uid has to find the users dn…

Ruairi

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 11:46:20 +0000

Thanks for the pointer Ruairi. I’ll have to download that version from WPMUDEV – and see if there is anything I can contribute back.