NYCPHP Meetup

[charlie derr]

Randal Rust wrote:
> On 11/2/06, Tim Sailer <sailer at bnl.gov> wrote:
> 
>> I have some crufty old PHP code I slammed together in a few hours
>> about 4-5 years ago that will show how to manipulate the attributes
>> for mail aliases,
> 
> I am in the middle of a project where the client uses LDAP not only as
> a authentication tool, but also as a data store. My understanding is
> that LDAP is not supposed to be used as a data store that is
> frequently updated. Am I correct?

Most LDAP servers are generally optimized to be very fast on read, but not necessarily fast on updates/changes/additions.  If your 
client has no problem with the slower pace of writing back to the directory, I'd say there's nothing wrong with using it in this way.

	~c

> 
> It currently manages the data for something like 2,000 library
> systems, including contact information, addresses, employees, branches
> and departments.
>