Description:

adLDAP is a PHP class that provides LDAP authentication and
integration with Active Directory.

Intelligent Active Directory integration with PHP was a holy grail for
most intranet developers for a long time. This project is really to
help others with getting over the same hurdles that we've experienced
in getting the whole LDAP SSL Active Directory puzzle working natively
on Linux.

Given the varied nature of organisations and sites, adLDAP may not be
_your_ complete solution, but it should be a very sound starting
point. LDAP isn't overly friendly on first glance, and it's a steep
learning curve made alot worse when coupled with Microsoft's seemingly
unending army of gotcha's.

The information you can retrieve from Active Directory is as useful as
you make it. If you don't fill out all their account information
there's not really going to be much to query.