Authenticating user using LDAP from PHP

Question

My project is to make a module enrollment system for our university. So I contacted the IT people in my university for details to authenticate the students into the system.

Answer 1

you could use http://pear.php.net/package/Net_LDAP2/docs it's nice and works.

Example of connection taken by the doc:

// Inclusion of the Net_LDAP2 package:
require_once 'Net/LDAP.php';

// The configuration array:
$config = array (
    'binddn'    => 'cn=admin,ou=users,dc=example,dc=org',
    'bindpw'    => 'password',
    'basedn'    => 'dc=example,dc=org',
    'host'      => 'ldap.example.org'
);

// Connecting using the configuration:
$ldap = Net_LDAP2::connect($config);

// Testing for connection error
if (PEAR::isError($ldap)) {
    die('Could not connect to LDAP-server: '.$ldap->getMessage());
}