Hi All!

So I need to manage some accounts in AD on MS Sever 2003, but I dont want to use ASP.net

Is there any way to manage AD accounts through the PHP?😕

    Hi,

    I think that's possible with the ldap functions. What exactly do you want to do ?

    Thomas

      well the LDAP is only way to controll ad remotely as far as I know...

      basically I dont know what exactly will I need, but it should be something like creating and managing user account settings.

      As to my finall project, I need to create some sort of software thar will work as Hot-Spot for wi-fi users, so if they in the zone they should be able to get on reg age andd add their user account to the server.

        oh yes another thing:
        the control should work through the interne w/ ip address :-(

          Yeah you need AD installed with LDAP server running.

          Then compile PHP with LDAP installed and your set. Now once you do that do this: What this will do is run a query against AD to find all the names that have Smith, Chad* listed. That should return only one if you have a Smith, Chad in the displayName field.

          function GetADName ($first, $last)
{
  //set variables to be used throughout function
  $domain = "myserver.domain.com";
  $domain_username  = "username" . '@' . $domain;
  $password = "password";

  //variables to be used in LDAP queries for searching
  //The DN will need to be changed accordingly once the Active Directory hierarchy is completed.
  $dn = "CN=Users,DC=sweet,DC=notice,DC=no,DC=dots";
  // CAPS do not matter with this filter.
  $filter = "(&(objectclass=user)(displayName=Smith, Chad*))";

  //Connects to our LDAP server.
  $ldap_conn = ldap_connect("ldap://$domain") or
    die("The connection to the ldap server $domain failed.");

  ldap_set_option( $ldap_conn, LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION, 3 ) or
    die ("Could not set LDAP Protocol version");

  //bind to ldap server
  $bind = ldap_bind($ldap_conn, $domain_username, $password) or
    die ("could not bind to AD authorized probably failed.");

  //search AD for the information based on $filter and $attributes
	$attributes = array ("displayName" , "telephoneNumber" , "physicalDeliveryOfficeName");

  $search_result = ldap_search( $ldap_conn, $dn, $filter, $attributes ) or
      die ("LDAP search has failed");

  $num_entries = ldap_count_entries($ldap_conn, $search_result);
	if($num_entries == 1)
	{
		  //get the entries that were returned in the search
		  $info = ldap_get_entries( $ldap_conn, $search_result ) or
  			die ("Failed on ldap_get_entries");

  for ($i=0; $i<$info["count"]; $i++) {
   		    $name = $info[$i][displayname][0];
   				$office = $info[$i][physicaldeliveryofficename][0];
   				$tele = $info[$i][telephonenumber][0];

   				$build_return = "$name;"."$office;"."$tele";
 				  return $build_return;
	  }
  }else{
			return 0;
	}
//unbind connection
ldap_unbind($ldap_conn);
}
?>

            thais is the same as in docvumentation, well almost...

            How do I compile the file for php... and how can I use IP address instead of DNS name?

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