active directory & php

A while back I wrote a little bit of software involving php, a few different databases and active directory. Active directory, as most people know is just ldap and can be accessed through normal ldap calls (depending on the domain controller's security settings). In addition certain domain controllers also provide global catalogs which are more limited versions of the same ldap db. The global catalogs generally only maintain a subset of user information, but can be used in almost all instances to provide ldap based authentication.

For our amazing javascript of the day I've come across a syntax highlighting text editor with joe bindings written in javascript (as a note, it is GPLed).