How we can retrieve user information from Active Directory?

Question

For now, I would like to know how we can retrieve user information from Active Directiory by using PHP Command. Can you give some example or any suggestion ?

Answer 1

PHP has LDAP functions:
http://php.net/manual/en/book.ldap.php

There's also a library called adLDAP which was designed to work with AD:
http://adldap.sourceforge.net/

Answer 2

Afaik AD is accessed via LDAP, so you would need a library for this:

• Native LDAP client - http://php.net/manual/en/book.ldap.php
• ZF LDAP Client - http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.ldap.html
• PEAR LDAP Client - http://pear.php.net/package/Net_LDAP2

There is also http://phpad.sunyday.net/ and Google has a good deal of further results.