Archive for the 'Technology' Category

LDAP, ActiveDirectory, and DokuWiki

August 3rd, 2005

I’ve had a terrible time trying to get PHP’s LDAP functions use an ActiveDirectory domain controller for authentication - even using the examples in posted comments. I tried writing a bunch of different pages but couldn’t get any of them to work. I think part of my problem is that I’m not totally savvy with LDAP [...]

Ajax Spell Checker on Windows

July 19th, 2005

I ported over an Ajax spell checker with a Perl backend to PHP. See the DHTML / PHP Ajax spell checker demo. I’d put a demo up, but this web host doesn’t have the pspell extension installed. You can still download the PHP spellcheck backend and associated files. This is basically a straight port of Emil’s [...]

Aspell 0.60.3 for Win32

July 17th, 2005

At work I wanted to get Aspell working with PHP on our Windows servers. Unfortunately, the Windows Aspell port hasn’t been updated in nearly three years. It’s all open source so I thought, “Self, how hard can it be to compile and provide for others to have?” Download Aspell 0.60.3 Windows installer - (new) .exe file with [...]