Today we are going to see how to make an authentication with PHP and an Active Directory LDAP (AD).

What is LDAP ?

This code sample has been tested on a Windows 2k3 server.

First time, your server need the LDAP standard connection on the port 389, it’s activate for a default creation of the AD.

Your LAMP / WAMP server also need the php_ldap extension.

I’m using the PHP features to make a connection and the authentication.

First step, make the connection to the AD server :

$host = "my.server.host.com";
//Get authentication information by login form
$myLogin = $_POST["loginAD"];
$myPass = $_POST["passAD"];
$ressource = ldap_connect($host);

PHP will connect to server on the port 389, then you have to authenticate with an AD user to access to his information.

if($ressource){
try{
      //Authentication to the AD with a windows login, password
	$bind = ldap_bind($ressource, $myLogin."@".$host, $myPass);
 
         /**
         **To get all information, its necessary to be logged.
         **It exists an anonymous mode, if you want to test only the server connection
         **Now we can get all information about this user
         */
       //$dn contain information asked by Windows server to browse the correct AD tree.
       //Here I want to browse all Users in the LDAP AD
       $dn = "CN=Users,DC=my,DC=server, DC=host,DC=com";
       /*I search email, groups and the name of the user
         *We can have many information about a user,
         *you can see all of them with removing the last argument in the ldap_search
        */
       $result = ldap_search($ressource, $dn, "samaccountname=".$myLogin, array("mail", "memberof","name"));
       //ldap_get_entries will return an array of all asked information
        $info = ldap_get_entries($ressource, $result);
        echo "
<pre>".print_r($info, true);
}catch(Exception $e){
        echo $e->getMessage();
}

I get a result like this :

Array
(
    [count] => 1
    [0] => Array
        (
            [memberof] => Array
                (
                    [count] => 1
                    [0] => CN=Administrators,CN=Builtin,DC=my,DC=server,DC=host,DC=com
                )
 
            [0] => memberof
            [name] => Array
                (
                    [count] => 1
                    [0] => Userfirstname Userlastname
                )
 
            [1] => name
            [mail] => Array
                (
                    [count] => 1
                    [0] => user@host.com
                )
 
            [2] => mail
            [count] => 3
            [dn] => CN=Userfirstname Userlastname,CN=Users,DC=my,DC=server,DC=host,DC=com
        )
 
)

Flash Builder 4 & Flash Catalyst demos are available in the Adobe Labs !!

Flash Builder 4

Flash Catalyst

Yeahhh

update and bug fixes : here

download it : here

Yogurt3D is a flash based 3d engine which is based on OpenGL called SwiftGL and is stated as open source. The site mentions that OpenGL source can be converted to run in the engine.

Check the demo !

Check the official site !

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We just finished the first part off the new Dior watches website (full Javascript with YUI… ouch ) with The Blast Machine.

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Adobe Air 1.5.1 is a relatively minor update that includes a number of bug fixes :

Mac & Windows :

Linux :

This release also contains one useful new feature : InvokeEvent.reason. For more infos, Oliver Goldman, a member of the AIR engineering team, posted a blog entry about it here.

Links :
- Adobe AIR 1.5.1 Developer and User Release Notes
- Adobe AIR 1.5.1 Documentation
- Download the Adobe AIR SDK
- Adobe AIR 1.5.1 Known Issues and Limitations
- Air team blog
- Oliver Goldman blog

Yahoo announce a new release of the Yahoo User Interface today.

Version 2.7.0 introduces a new StyleSheet component, graduates three components out of “beta”, improves support for the upcoming release of IE8, includes over 180 bug fixes and enhancements, and ships with more than 300 functional examples.

More information on the YUI blog.
Just waiting for a new release of the YUI 3.X now !

With awayBuilder :

And a custom parser for Maya scenes saved as Collada files.

Some other feature highlights in this release include:

* Interchangeable camera lenses to allow for different types of projection
* All values allowed for stage properties “align” and “scaleMode”
* Improved memory management
* Improved extrusion tools
* ROLL_OVER/ROLL_OUT events added to MouseEvent3D
* Billboard mesh objects for fast 2d sprites

To download check this page.