AD, Win2K, PHP Tutorial

[ccollins]

Hey,

I recently started development of a suite of intranet applications for a small private university here in Milwaukee, WI. When I began development, I needed a way to authenticate against the windows domain (active directory) with PHP, but I couldn't find any good information. Now, i'm working on a way to change domain passwords through the intranet, and have encountered the same lack of info.

The question I have is this: Would it be of value to anyone to have a tutorial on how to accomplish these tasks? I've never written one before, but I think I'm up to the task.

Additionally, where would I begin making this document available? Would i just post it at my site, or is it ok to contact other site admins about posting it? Just looking for a little feedback and guidance.

-c.collins

[Matt]

I think alot of people would find those subjects valuable. As for where to post them. Your own site is a good start. Most people who run a site that deals with PHP would love to post them also. Me included :)

[ccollins]

Cool, thanks!

[craig]

A tutorial would be great - I'm currently working on a similar project for my college, and the data I found on the net I've found to be invalid and has acually set me back.

If you are still stuck on changing user passwords, assuming you are running Windows servers, you can write some functions to change password in VB (for which there is plenty documentation on MSDN) and then use COM objects in PHP to call the functions from the web.

[MonkeyCode]

Could we have a new section on the forum for Tutorials. When somebody has written a new one they could then advertise their site so we can all check it out?

[Matt]

For the moment, feel free to place links such as those in the Articles forum. If we get a large number of posts that are geared specifically towards tutorials, I will break them out into their own forum....

[ccollins]

That's kinda what i figured. gonna be starting on that next week. Thanks.

Originally posted by craig
A tutorial would be great - I'm currently working on a similar project for my college, and the data I found on the net I've found to be invalid and has acually set me back.

If you are still stuck on changing user passwords, assuming you are running Windows servers, you can write some functions to change password in VB (for which there is plenty documentation on MSDN) and then use COM objects in PHP to call the functions from the web.