I wanted to provide our CRM users an alternate way of logging to the system using their Zimbra email authentication and there is a really easy way of doing it which I have figured out in little while with googling. Definitely PHP online help docs and Zimbra forums both came to help and found a correct options to use from Zimbra Forums which is powered by it's USERS.
Just make sure to enable php_ldap extension before you move further.
// Uncomment following line from php.ini extension=php_ldap.dll
Following code snippet could be used to authenticate and find out whether provided Username and Password belongs to valid Zimbra User or not by authenticating it with Zimbra's LDAP (Light-weight Directory Access Protocol) server. So this way if you want you can provide your intranet/business application users an ability to use their Zimbra (mail/collaboration system) password to be used as an optional way to authenticate themselves. Read the rest of this entry »
