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["caleb racey" <>]

We are interested in using grouper with php applications too. 

As Tom has mentioned at present grouper mainly works by provisioning groups 
into LDAP directories. PHP can then interrogate the LDAP directory for 
information. If that approach matches your infrastructure then it is probably 
the one you should pursue. 

There are other possibilities for integration. It would be possible to 
populate a database with specific grouper groups relatively easily and query 
that via php.  Alternatively it is possible to populate an .htaccess file 
with group membership and use that directly with apache to do access control. 
Both these approaches are adhoc and inelegant but may well be useful in given 
use cases. The gsh grouper shell tool allows for command line querying of the 
grouper api. It is then relatively easy to write small scripts that run gsh 
and format the output to create .htaccess files, or write to a databases. 
This is not the way grouper is "meant" to be used but may be enough to 
provide lightweight integration of a variety of php based apps with grouper. 

Regards

Caleb Racey
Webteam
ISS


 >-----Original Message-----
 >From: Tom Barton 
 >[mailto:]
 >Sent: 04 September 2007 22:11
 >To: Veli AKÇAKAYA
 >Cc: 
 >
 >Subject: [grouper-users] Re: [grouper-info] Using Grouper for PHP
 >Application Authorization
 >
 >Hi Veli,
 >
 >At present, grouper has a java API, and there is an associated LDAP
 >provisioning tool. That probably means accessing grouper-managed groups
 >in php through LDAP, but I'm no expert in php.
 >
 >Tom
 >
 >Steve Olshansky wrote:
 >> Hi-
 >> We appreciate your interest in Grouper. Now that you are on the lists,
 >the
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 >>
 >> Cheers-
 >>     Steve
 >>
 >> Veli AKÇAKAYA wrote:
 >>> Hi,
 >>> we want to use  Grouper with ours PHP
 >>> application. Can we use the Grouper in  PHP application? How is it?
 >>>
 >>> Thanks...
 >>>
 >>>
 >>
 >> -------- Original Message --------
 >> Subject: Re: Article to be approved for grouper-dev
 >> Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:17:13 -0600
 >> From: Steve Olshansky 
 >> <>
 >> To: Veli AKÇAKAYA 
 >> <>
 >>
 >> Hi-
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 >> Cheers-
 >>     Steve
 >>
 >>> Subject:
 >>> Using Grouper in PHP Application
 >>> From:
 >>> Veli AKÇAKAYA 
 >>> <>
 >>> Date:
 >>> Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:45:48 +0300
 >>> To:
 >>> 
 >>>
 >>>
 >>> Hi,
 >>> we (Sabanci University of Turkey) want to use  Grouper with ours PHP
 >>> application. Can we use the Grouper in  PHP application? How is it?
 >>>
 >>> Thanks...
 >>