kolab ldap using SQL backend

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Hallo Martin,
My problem with LDAP is:
I have a contact book made in PHP/MySQL that has 2 main tables:
1 - Company
2 - People
When I add a contact, I choose a company from a dropdown list. The People 
table then has a related record on Company with the Company's ID. So I type 
the Company name only once in a lifetime (That avoids typos and saves a lot 
of time) and then can call all members of a Company at the same time, or have 
a form allowing me to choose a member of that Company to send a document. 
I've been spinning wheels trying to figure how to do it in LDAP. So I thought 
about creating records in MySQL and then exporting to LDAP.
Maybe I'm missing something, but how can I organize people by company and 
avoid typing the company every time I add a record in LDAP?
TIA,
Joe Karma

 

> 
> Hi,
> 
> > is there an easy way to use postgres or mysql as a backend with openldap 
in
> > kolab?
> 
> Yes it is possible though what are you aiming for?
> 
> See also: http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200001/msg00024.html
> and: http://www.section6.net/help/openldap.php
> 
> > can be it an option when we setup kolab? 
> 
> I recommend to firstly use the Kolab builtin bdb do all the tests and then 
> later migrate to the mysql backend.
> 
> Regards,
> -- martin
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