August 2011

Active Directory User Validation Through LDAP and PHP

We were recently tasked with the redesign of a fairly large intranet application which used Microsoft Active Directory for user authentication.

Windows, PHP, and MS SQL: A match made in...well...

The vast majority of PHP sites are built using a LAMP setup. For the uninitiated, this indicates a server running a Linux operating system, Apache web server software, a MySQL database, and the PHP development language. There are several reasons why this set of software is so popular, but the key ones are cost (free), security, reliability, and a wide open-source development community.

Webhost Review - ANHosting (updated)

I have updated the previous review of ANHosting due to a recent rash of downtime. Please see the update at the end of that post for full details.

Use Drupal Views to Create Custom Reports

We launched a rather large e-commerce site recently, and one of their requirements included a report that allowed administrators to mark purchases as processed -- the client had a much larger donor management system that was separate from the website's database and needed to make sure that orders were rec