Displaying Active Data in a Webform

[lukeskywalker]

Hello,

I am working on a project. I have created a web form called mywebform.php. The webform contains both HTML tags and PHP tags. The webform contains fields such as Firstname and Surname.

What I would like to do is to search Active Directory and

1. have the PHP program get the firstname and surname, populate the form with
   the first name and surname, send the form to the user.

The user corrects the surname/firstname and submits the changes to the server.

I have read a few articles on how to search Active Directory however I have no idea, on how to populate the form with data from Active Directory. Can some one please point me in the right direction?

2. If my Active Directory contains two users e.g. user1 and user2. Is it possible to
   display the data for these users in two seperate Internet Explorer Windows?.

   For example the php program will retrieve user1 details and display them in
   
   one Internet Explorer window, and display the details for user 2 in another
   
   Internet Explorer window?.

I apologise for the lengthy post .

[dagon]

ok that's what you want - so what have you done towards achieving that? where are you stuck? No one here is writing it for you.

[Damian_]

I agree i still don't understand the question anyway!!! and i have seen this posted on another website!

[lukeskywalker]

Hello,

So far I have created a html form which contains some php code hence why I have given it the extension .php. I have also connected my php file, the one that does the actual processing to active Directory.

I want to extract data from the Active Directory and publish that data in the form. I think I know how to extract the data however I don't have a clue as to how to put the data into a web form and send it to the user. What I am trying to avoid is messing up the form because it contains mre then basic HTML.

For instance my form has a field called the code for whch is given below:

<div>
<table>
<tr>
<td><label for="firstname">Firstname:</label>
<input type="text" readonly="yes" name="firstname" id="firstname" size="25"/>

</td></tr><table></div>

I know that data can be extracted from AD and be put into an array.

For example if the array containing the extracted data is called $information and the value of the firstname is in the key [0], to populate the firstname field I would do the following.
<div>
<table>
<tr>
<td><label for="firstname">Firstname:</label>
<input type="text" readonly="yes" name=$information[0] id="firstname" size="25"/>

</td></tr><table></div>

Is that the correct way of doing it?

I apologise for my earler post not bein clear.

[Damian_]

should be

value=<?php echo $information[0] ?> name="Fname"

Value will be shown in the form and the name is what you will post to identify the value in that field.

and you might need to put your form in a loop as there may be more than one user??

is that what you are after?

[lukeskywalker]

Yes I wanted the first name field to display the user's first name.

Thank you for your help.