I'm starting to get the hang of php now ;)

I've put echo statements throughout the code and found that it only gets up to the line:

self::$ds = @ldap_connect($uri, $port);

Does the "@" mean it's an external function call, if not where do I find it so I can continue putting echo statements in?

I've also confirmed that php is definately installed and it has version 5.1.4.4 of the php_ldap.dll file in C:\lighttpd\php\ext\

Thanks Simon. It's always interesting learning new languages by guess work

Anyway, I think this (http://devzone.zend.com/manual/ref.ldap.html) might be relevant:

"LDAP support in PHP is not enabled by default. You will need to use the --with-ldap[=DIR] configuration option when compiling PHP to enable LDAP support. DIR is the LDAP base install directory. To enable SASL support, be sure --with-ldap-sasl[=DIR] is used, and that sasl.h exists on the system.

Note to Win32 Users: In order to enable this module on a Windows environment, you must copy several files from the DLL folder of the PHP/Win32 binary package to the SYSTEM folder of your windows machine. (Ex: C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32, or C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM). For PHP <= 4.2.0 copy libsasl.dll, for PHP >= 4.3.0 copy libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll to your SYSTEM folder."

I've now copied libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll into both system and system32.

And I've downloaded php-5.2.5-win32-installer.msi so now I can hopefully install PHP with LDAP support...

Installing the latest Lighttpd was easy. Installing the latest PHP was ok. Installing the latest MySQL correctly for SilverStripe was too hard for me. I didn't even get to integrating all three and getting SilverStripe running.

Is there any chance of updating SilverStripe's Windows installer to the latest versions?

ie:
Lighttpd from 1.4.10 to 1.4.19
MySQL from 5.0.24 to 5.0.51
PHP from 5.1.4.4 to 5.2.5

Especially as SilverStripe recommends PHP 5.2.0+ (http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=server-requirements).

I'm also puzzled that the server requirements page recommends using WAMP when their own Windows installer is a WLMP? (There is a WLMP site but sadly it's only in Hungarian http://en.wlmp-project.net/). Internally SilverStripe seem to prefer Lighttpd so I'm keen to follow their example but am not able.

Thanks Matt.

I got a WAMP working and finally got past the previous sticking point of the blank page

However, I now get "Could not bind to LDAP server."

The line of code:

$bind = @ldap_bind(self::$ds, $bindas, $bindpw);

What are your thoughts Lancer?