[webstack-discuss] PHP5 Feature Enhancements [LSARC/2009/124 FastTrack timeout 02/27/2009]

[Jeff Trawick]

James Carlson wrote:
> Jyri Virkki writes:
>   
>> 2.3 Integrate PHP runtime with OpenLDAP libraries. 
>>
>> This project will switch the LDAP client library internally used by PHP LDAP
>> extension from native Solaris LDAP to OpenLDAP client library. 
>>     
>
> Has this change (and the reason for it) been discussed with the team
> that supports the native Solaris LDAP library?
>
>   
It has been discussed to a small extent.

Note that this isn't so much a technical matter of how to get a couple 
of specific open source packages to interoperate with the native Solaris 
LDAP library as it is a long term consideration for how we accommodate 
existing open source applications on the platform. (PHP has an 
additional consideration; PHP applications which already support ldaps 
on Linux would need to be modified to support ldaps on OpenSolaris if 
PHP's LDAP extension doesn't use OpenLDAP.)

All of the LDAP-exploitive packages we know of which are either 
potentially in scope for inclusion with the OpenSolaris web stack or 
likely added by users already work with OpenLDAP; relatively few of 
these packages work properly with native Solaris LDAP.

Of the four open source components already integrated within the web 
stack which should be able to exploit LDAP, two (Apache and PHP) work 
with the native library only for non-SSL connections, and the other two 
don't work with it at all.