Directory Service Plugin for Squirrelmail

Introduction

Brent Bice (bbice at persistence .com) originally wrote the much famous ldapquery plugin for Squirrelmail; a plugin for searching LDAP for users.

This is a plugin with the same functionality, highly based on Brent's code, with some additional features. It was written for the needs of my organization.

Features

• Squirrelmail 1.4.x compatibility, guidelines compatible
• An extra page that displays information about an organizational unit.
• An extra page that displays a user's profile, with all the permitted attributes.
• Sending of vCard to browser, for browsers and/or MUAs that probably support this format.
• Supports a 'privacy' attribute, allowing attributes to be considered as private by the user and thus not shown in White Pages directories.
• Edit Profile page, that allows an other set of attributes to be edited freely.
• LDAP Schemas (Definitions of the various attributes) are stored in separate files and can be extended easily.
• Supports the eduOrg and eduPerson schemas, as defined by the Internet2 Middleware, Architecture Committee, Directory Working Group (MACE-Dir).
• Organizational Units (eduorg) are cached in the session.
• User can place a restriction filter: the result must belong to the organizational unit(s) selected by the user.
• Supports some kind of interoperability with the Shared Folders (useracl) plugin for Squirrelmail: can display a direct link from the directory search results, to add a share to a particular user.
• Adds an option in config.php for the maximum number of results that the LDAP server will return. If there are more than the maximum results, a nice message is being displayed.
• Localizable. Template is at po/directory.pot.
• If a localized entry exists in the LDAP and it matches the user's locale, for example: entry cn;lang-fr exists and user has French locale, it will use this entry. It first converts from LDAP's UTF8 to the charset used in Squirrelmail, using mb_string_convert() or recode() or iconv(), whichever is available.
• User can ask for many criteria to be ANDed in the search.
• Can use an administrator-supplied bind dn & password.
• uses makeComposeLink() for the mailto: hyperlinks. (Requires Squirrelmail 1.4.2)
• Can display alternate mail addresses if they exist on user's LDAP object.
• Looks really nice, with Squirrelmail colors and tables.

Download

There are no releases yet, sorry. You can grab the latest sources via anonymous CVS, using this command sequence: (Press enter when asked for a password)

There is also a ViewCVS Web Interface to the repository.

TODO

• Clean up and support all possible different configurations. At the moment much of the code is customized for my environment (University of Athens) and my needs.
• Stabilize API for other Squirrelmail applications to pass javascript code.