Summary: PHP with LDAP support, as a package

[Ivan Fetch]

Hello,


    Thank you to the following folks who responded:
Victoria DeVore <Victoria.DeVore at umpqua.edu>
dersmythe at fastmail.fm
cloper <cloper at crowncollege.edu>
Jim Seymour <jseymour at linxnet.com>
Alan Pae <alan.pae at gmail.com>


    The suggestions I received included:
    Create our own packages - see:
http://www.sunfreeware.com/pkgadd.html

    The PHP PEAR repository, specifically the clone of the PERL Net::LDAP 
module at:
http://pear.php.net/package/Net_LDAP

    Consider the amount of vonerability announcements for PHP - one 
responder is considering going from PHP to PERL.

    Request a PHP/LDAP package from Steve of sunfreeware.


    Steve from sunfreeware has said he can create an experimental package 
for PHP/LDAP that we can test - we're going to do this, and also 
look into the other PEAR options


    Thanks to everyone who responded, and so quickly.


    MY initial question is below:


Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:58:59 -0700 (MST)
From: Ivan Fetch <ifetch at du.edu>
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Subject: PHP with LDAP support, as a package

hello all,


    We're looking into switching from PERL CGIs to php, and wondering what other 
Sun managers are doing for php (prefer 4, but am willing to consider 5) with 
LDAP support, as a package?  This will be for Solaris 8 and 9, mostly on sparc.


    We are currently using SunFreeware for our other packaging, however the 
SunFreeware php5 package does not offer an LDAP option.  I see BlastWave does 
offer php with LDAP, but we would probably need to move our Apache2 package to 
BlastWave as well.  Of course I can compile php from source (link against Sun's 
directory server 5.1? or Open LDAP?) but it would be nice to standardize on 
packages.


    Rather than get stuck in analysis paralysis, I figured I'd inquire with 
folks here and see how others are managing their production php on Solaris. 
Thanks all for any feedback,

Ivan Fetch.
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