Posted by Steve Turnbull on 04/19/05 11:19

Richard Lynch wrote:

> On Mon, April 18, 2005 2:43 am, Steve Turnbull said:
>> I am running a LAMP setup consisting of Debian (testing), PHP4, Apache2,
>> and
>> MySQL 4.
>>
>> When I installed php, I used apt-get, and included in the list of modules
>> was libapache2_mod_php4 php4 php4-ldap ...
>>
>> PHP works fine, and a test phpinfo() brings up all of the expected
>> parameters (at least I think it does).
>>
>> The one thing that doesn't work is ldap. I have enabled the ldap modules
>> - a2enmod ldap - and this doesn't throw an error, it just prompts for the
>> apache restart which in turn restarts fine.
>>
>> BUT if I run a very simple ldap_connect (see script) I get this error;
>>
>> Fatal error: Call to undefined function: ldap_connect()
>> in /www/stevedev/vhtdocs/ldap/index.php on line 27
>>
>> So it appears that the ldap hasn't got itself running with php.
>>
>> The very simple test script I used was;
>>
>> $ds = ldap_connect('ldap.<our server>.net');
>> if ($ds) {
>> ldap_bind($ds);
>> echo 'connected';
>> } else {
>> echo 'not connected';
>> }
>>
>> Has any one got any ideas of why this error get thrown?
>
> Sounds to me like you've installed:
> LDAP
> PHP
> but you have *not* installed the PHP-LDAP module.
>
> Search in your apt-get thingie for something like "php_ldap" or "phpldap"
> which will be the PHP extension that lets PHP actually use LDAP, as
> opposed to just happening to have both LDAP and PHP installed on the same
> machine.
>

Thanks for the reply.

I actually sussed it last night - when I installed the packages, It didn't
have 'extension=ldap.so' in the php.ini file.

Regards
Steve

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