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- Mahatma Gandhi
" Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.. "
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Authenticate Active Directory user through LDAP in PHP:
– Create login form with two field username and password. – On submit of this login form get the submitted data…
– Append the ‘Account Suffix’ with the username. – Connect AD server to your local setup using ‘ldap_connect’ function.
– Check whether the provided details are valid or not using ‘ldap_bind’ function.
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Example code: |
<?php
// LDAP variables
$ldaphost = "ldap.example.com"; // your ldap servers
$ldapport = 389 or 636; // your ldap server's port number
// Connecting to LDAP
$ldapconn = ldap_connect($ldaphost, $ldapport) or die("Failed to connect");
//username should have 'Account Suffix' as suffix
//username= 'user@AccountSuffix'
$ldapuname = $_POST['username'] . '@AccountSuffix';
// associated password posted via login form
$ldappass = $_POST['password'];
// verify binding
if ($ldapbind)
{
echo "LDAP bind successful... User authenticated successfully";
}
else
{ echo "LDAP bind failed...";
}
?>