Ldap Within Yii Vs Outside It

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi Everyone,

A quick query I hope you can help with.

External to the yii framework I can successfully bind to, search and add to an external ldap via:




$ds=ldap_connect($ldapoptions['host'],$ldapoptions['port']);

if ($ds) 

{

	echo 'LDAP CONNECTED';

	ldap_set_option($ds, LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION, 3);

    	ldap_set_option($ds, LDAP_OPT_REFERRALS, 0);

	ldap_set_option($ds, LDAP_OPT_DEBUG_LEVEL, 7);

        $r=ldap_bind($ds,$ldapoptions['binddn'],$ldapoptions['bindpass']);

        ...

}

within the yii framework, exactly the same code results in a:

ldap_bind(): Unable to bind to server: Can’t contact LDAP server

Is there any reason this would be the case?

Thanks!

2

Shouldn’t be. I’ve successfully wrapped an LDAP library in Yii and it works just fine.

3

What library did you use, and what modifications had to be done?

I have been using the ldaprecord extension, but poor documentation and somewhat buggy code has made me search for alternatives

4

I was needing to do AD authentication using LDAP, so ended up using this library: http://adldap.sourceforge.net

One thing I ran into with it was that it doesn’t handle recursive queries (which my tool needed to support) through user groups. So I had to subclass it and extend it in a variety of ways. It got messy fast.

But the short version was that I got LDAP queries running against AD with IIS/PHP/MSSQL, so you should be able LDAP queries working if your stack is less weird and twisted :slight_smile:

5

And you are running the code on the same server, right?