Authenticating in PHP using LDAP through Active Directory

Question

I\'m looking for a way to authenticate users through LDAP with PHP (with Active Directory being the provider). Ideally, it should be able to run on IIS 7 (adLDAP does it on

Answer 1

I do this simply by passing the user credentials to ldap_bind().

http://php.net/manual/en/function.ldap-bind.php

If the account can bind to LDAP, it's valid; if it can't, it's not. If all you're doing is authentication (not account management), I don't see the need for a library.