Using Phone List

The phone list application is a relatively simple application that allows you to keep track of people and their phone numbers. When you add or edit a person’s entry you can change the following:

• Name
• Phone Number
• Cell Number
• Extension
• Location
• Department
• Email Address
• User Id (i.e. SSN, employee ID #)

One of the advanced features of the phone list is that the database backend can easily be swapped out for an LDAP backend. This is particularly useful where user information is already stored in LDAP, but a web interface to that data is desired (i.e. Active Directory). To enable the LDAP backend for phone list do the following:

1. Open up phone list’s conf.php file in your favorite text editor.
2. Under the Database section uncomment the lines dealing with ldap by removing the /** and */ which surround them.
3. Create a user on your LDAP server who can edit and delete entries.
4. Fill in that user’s information into the username and password fields.
5. Map the ldap fields to the existing fields in the fieldmap field.
6. Edit the default filter if needed.