Talking to an Exchange 5.5 Server

[Anon]

Hey Guys,

I'm working on a project where I need to talk to a Microsoft Exchange 5.5 server using PHP. I know that I can get the email, and public folders by using IMAP, and possible some other stuff using LDAP... I have a few questions though:

1. How could I get the Contacts using PHP?
2. How could I get the groups that the user is in using PHP?

Example code, etc. would rock, but a simple explanation would also be welcome.

In ASP, I would use CDO to do all this, but I'm not that familiar with CDO, and the rest of our web-based solution is PHP, so it'd be best to just use PHP.

Any Suggestions?... Could I do this using XML if we upgrade to Exchange 2k?

Links to using PHP with LDAP talking to a Windows 2k Active Directory would be cool.

Thanks,

Chris Edwards

[Anon]

Ok, I've been doing some more research and found this nifty feature in PHP4 that lets me do COM stuff... and CDO has a COM thing. So, has anyone tried this? Or would I be the first? Do I get a hero cookie if I make it work?

[Anon]

im looking at this as well with not too much success. Tried writing a POP tool which doesnt work full stop and using IMAP i get timeout errors.
Any assistance would be really useful.
Cheers
J