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LDAP is the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, and is a protocol
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used to access "Directory Servers". The Directory is a special kind
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of database that holds information in a tree structure.
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The concept is similar to your hard disk directory structure, except
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that in this context, the root directory is "The world" and the
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first level subdirectories are "countries". Lower levels of the
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directory structure contain entries for companies, organisations
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or places, while yet lower still we find directory entries for
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people, and perhaps equipment or documents.
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The PHP LDAP library allows you to query and set values in remote
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and local LDAP databases.
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