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Asked: 2026-05-25T06:29:07+00:00

Our company is looking at moving authentication from our web app which is PHP

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Our company is looking at moving authentication from our web app which is PHP running on Apache in Windows, and would like to authenticate using Active Directory. I have a way to simply pull your username that you’re already authenticated with, but I have no experience with actually authenticating.

Reading up it looks like LDAP would be the way to go. My question is as follows:

Is LDAP the best way to authenticate in a PHP web app using Active Directory credentials?
Is there a different setup I should go to perhaps using PHP and IIS?

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  1. Editorial Team

    http://www.davidschultz.org/2008/04/10/how-to-authenticate-against-active-directory-using-php/

    ^ this will show you how to authenticate against AD with PHP.

    I don’t know that this is better or worse than LDAP, but it seems pretty easy. Though, read through the comments first–it’s probably not a good idea to hit AD on each page load but rather store a value somewhere to check against as one of the comments suggests.

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