Archive for May, 2009
Authenticating to an Active Directory Domain
Posted by PhazeonPhoenix in Symfony on May 30th, 2009
I’ve a project that needs to authenticate itself against a Windows Active Directory. I’ve done this before and it’s not exactly the simplest thing to do. I’ve used adLDAP before and it’s worked relatively well in my stand alone projects before I discovered MVC frameworks. Now that I’m using symfony I’ve become quite fond at how easy sfGuardPlugin made authentication. The problem is there isn’t a symfony plugin that allows for AD/LDAP authentication.
My next task is going to be integrating the adLDAP code into a plugin to expand sfGuardPlugin. The point isn’t to create a seemless authentication scheme, simply to be able to sign in with a domain username and password. I’m going to need not only authentication but also group membership for permission maintenance. This is either going to be something simple or something complex. I have done it before and I’m fairly certain I’ll be able to do it again.
Diving Into the Blog
Posted by PhazeonPhoenix in Miscellanea on May 29th, 2009
Well here it is, the first real post in my new Blog. I’ve resisted creating one since they first started appearing back in 2006. At first I thought it was simply a fad and would go away. Obviously I was wrong. I never got around to making one before now because I didn’t feel I had anything worthwhile to blog about.
A short while ago out of sheer boredom one day I decided to poke around with Wordpress. I knew what it was but I’d never taken a carefull look at it. I must say I’m impressed with it. After creating a blog for TechLive Now’s Educated Toddler eTailer store I decided it was time for my own blog. Another thanks should go to Digital Nature and his Fusion Wordpress theme. I was too lazy to create a theme from scratch. It’s a very clean and efficient theme that I’ve stylized. It was very simple for me to alter his code and create the style I was looking for.
I’ll be posting some of my random musings and some of my work in the future.
Welcome to Phazeon.com
Posted by PhazeonPhoenix in Miscellanea on May 29th, 2009
Hello to all the denizens of the blogosphere! Welcome to Phazeon.com. This is my little corner of the ‘net.