How to use ldap in UserIdentity for authentication

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It took me a while to get ldap auth working with yii, so I write it down here, maybe it can be of some use.

Yii does not have a ldap class by itself, but you can extend it for example with Zend classes. To authenticate users at you page via ldap, change protected/components/UserIdentity.php in the following way:

On top of the file add:

Yii::import('application.vendors.*');
    require_once('Zend/Ldap.php');

Delete or comment out everything in the authenticate() function. Then add

$options = array(
            'host'              => 'your.ldap.host.com',
            'username'          => 'your_admin_users_username',
            'password'          => 'your_admin_users_password',
            'baseDn'            => 'your_base_dn',
            'useStartTls'        => true, # if you need startTls
    );
    $ldap = new Zend_Ldap($options);
    try{
            $ldap->bind("cn=".$this->username.",your_base_dn", $this->password);
            $auth=true;
    }
    catch (Exception $e){
            $auth=false;
    }
    if($auth===true)
    {
            $this->errorCode=self::ERROR_NONE;
    }
    return !$this->errorCode;

For this to work you need Exception.php, Ldap.php and the Ldap folder from the library folder of a Zend installation in the folder protected/vendors/Zend

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