I have a deep background in MySQL and other relational databases, but essentially zero experience with LDAP. I'd like to ask if there is a good tutorial/getting started site that discusses designing LDAP directories and CRUD operations on LDAP data from language specific APIs for either Python or PHP? I'm interesting in using OpenLDAP as the backend for this, thanks.
Up to date OpenLDAP materials are very hard to come by. Their documentation is very good, but it can be hard to grasp if you're new to LDAP. The best tutorial, or at least the one that had what I was looking for, that I've found so far is LDAP for Rocket Scientists. It's not complete, but it covers a lot pieces that may be taken for granted by other tutorials. It also has a section on the new cn=Config style of configuration, which isn't well covered anywhere.
The python-ldap module is well maintained, and has good documentation, but unfortunately few implementation examples.
I suggest using PEAR's Net_LDAP2 package to access the LDAP server. I don't know about any LDAP introduction tutorials, though.
The book 'Understanding and Deploying Ldap Directory Services' might be of help to start with
http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Deploying-Directory-Architecture-Development/dp/1578700701
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I have some open source application resides on my server as well as some other application.
Like open project, matter most, own cloud etc and i have to implement single sign on functionality for all of those application.
but don't know from where to start or how to proceed further. And my networking concept are really too weak.
I searched for LDAP client server,SAML but did not get relevant way to accomplish the task(Or the step wise process)
and wants to implement the system in laravel(PHP)
Please help me out to solve these challenging task.
The best SSO solution for PHP is simpleSAMLphp.
There's a lot of documentation there that will answer most of your questions.
I have been struggling to find an active open-source PHP project that supports OAuth 2.0 as a server. There are tons of client examples that connect to Facebook, Twitter, etc. but as more and more people want to expose their own services through an API I'm a bit surprised the open source community hasn't addressed this need already. It's not that there is nothing but what's there is mostly out-of-date, little-to-no documentation, and very little to no activity in terms of current development and conversation.
Am I missing a good open-source option out there? Does anyone know of any commercial options? I really need to get something in place soonish and I personally don't have the bandwidth or security credentials to tackle this problem myself.
After much searching around I believe I have found the best solution for PHP'ers out there. Opinions are a dime a dozen but here's my favourite:
http://bshaffer.github.io/oauth2-server-php-docs/
Very active, high quality conversation and a solid product along with good (and improving) documentation.
Here is the list of available server and client libraries:
http://oauth.net/2/
which leads to a github project which is maintained.
oauth2 server by php league is much more followed and downloaded project on github. My personal experience has been awesome and the best part is it's documentation. Excellent implementation of oauth2.
According to http://www.zimuel.it/oauth2-apigility/ & http://apigility.org/documentation/auth/authentication-oauth2
You now can implement OAuth 2.0 Server using the open source project Apigility, with Brent Shaffer's implementation underneath...
in the end...
The OAuth2 implementation in Apigility uses the oauth2-server-php
library by Brent Shaffer. Apigility uses a PDO database to store all
the information related to the OAuth2 protocol. You can create your
database using the schema reported in the file
/vendor/zfcampus/zf-oauth2/data/db_oauth2.sql under your Apigility
installation folder (zf-apigility-skeleton).
I have tried googling a lot but couldn't find a library which can provide me single-sign on feature for my website.
I am looking for similar script like stackoverflow is using for facebook, twitter, google, openid etc...
I have tried hybridauth, http://hybridauth.sourceforge.net/ but it's not working for me.
Could you guys please suggest me other alternatives?
I've seen several website using this library : http://www.janrain.com/products/engage
(formerly https://rpxnow.com/)
I have not personally tried..
Why not OpenID itself? I heard good thing about it, and the same, as you specified, SO use it. There's an OpenID website that keep track of all libraries found from official OpenID team of third-part solution that you can find here: http://openid.net/developers/libraries/.
Choose what suits best your needs.
Notice that they warn you:
We have setup a code repository for gathering libraries and other supporting examples. While several of these libraries have been tested, they are maintained by members of the OpenID community and are not necessarily known to work.
I've been banging my head against the wall trying to add openid to my PHP webapp, but none of the libraries provided seem to do it in a clean and simple way.
Is there any way to implement openid SSO without being forced into more design choices than is necessary?
The janrain library - being the most popular - is also the most unwieldy, although it seems to be the only one getting significant maintenance. Aside from lacking a clear and simple tutorial, it also imposes some strange filesystem requirements and code dependencies.
Any and all suggestions are welcome. I realize I'm interacting with other servers and that redirects and callbacks are required. Please bear in mind, this isn't my main complaint, I understand the nature of what I'm working with.
I just wish it was easier and more clearly laid out!
If you're using PHP5, I suggest trying LightOpenID.
I use the Zend openid library (best of a bad bunch), but it doesn't support all the latest openid features - not found a perfect implementation yet tbh..
Tutorial describes how to implement Google login( yahoo,etc only just change the URLs, source code is same) in PHP using LightOpenID.
I'd have thought this would be a native feature (seeing as joomla allows you to connect contacts with user accounts) but we can't find any way to do this!
Does anyone know of any extensions/modules that would allow this?
I'm not so hot on PHP so i'd really love to not have to code this by hand!
This is an old thread, but since it is still opened maybe you haven't found a solution yet. I faced the same problem myself and I think having the ability to manage contacts from the frontend is an essential feature for Joomla! to become more usable as a simple webapp creation tool.
Anyway, there are a couple of extensions that might help you out. However, both are commercial and don't support Joomla! 1.6. Here they are:
Front-edit address book: simple
interface. Note, however, that there
might be a security issue with
it. Google "front-edit address book exploits" and you shall find it (sorry, stackoverflow lets me post a max of 2 links per thread since I'm a new user). I emailed the developer and he assured me that the problem was already fixed, though.
Grumpy contacts: on the demo site (there's a link at the page I pointed you to), it looked a little messy to my taste. In the Joomla! Extensions Directory, however, it has good reviews.
I never used any of those since all my projects are already migrated to Joomla! 1.6.
If you found another alternative in the meantime or even developed something yourself, please let me know.
Do you try in the user menu?
Another option would be install Community Builder.
Good luck!
Contacts in Joomla are handled by the builtin com_contacts compoment which provides basic functionality for adding contacts and some basic info from the back-end.
QContacts is a wonderful extension which gives you some more control over the data you can provide, but still no front-end support.
Unfortunately I am tackling this issue as well and it turns out there are no real out-of-the-box options for supporting front-end editing of contact details.