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[ILUG] RE: Personal database?

[ILUG] RE: Personal database?

Marcus Furlong furlongm at hotmail.com
Sat Jun 2 19:29:11 IST 2007


On Sat 02 Jun 2007 18:20, Paschal Nee wrote:

> "glorified address book" - sounds like LDAP to me ;-)

I had the same thought, LDAP seems to be what you're looking for.

> - Works well with varying info
> - is a lot more sophisticated that anything you might roll yourself
> - is commonly used for what you are looking to do
> - lots of client libraries out there in various languages (&
> accessible from most good mail applications)
> 
> http://www.openldap.org/ for the server
> http://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net for a web based admin client

http://lds.linbox.org/ for a more user friendly web frontend than
phpldapadmin

Marcus




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