Developing ColdFusion MX Applications with CFML
Managing LDAP Directories

Using LDAP with ColdFusion

The cfldap tag extends the ColdFusion query capabilities to LDAP network directory services. The cfldap tag lets you use LDAP in many ways, such as the following:

• Create Internet White Pages so users can locate people and resources and get information about them.
• Provide a front end to manage and update directory entries.
• Build applications that incorporate data from directory queries in their processes.
• Integrate applications with existing organizational or corporate directory services.

The cfldap tag action attribute supports the following operations on LDAP directories:

Action	Description
query	Returns attribute values from a directory.
add	Adds an entry to a directory.
modify	Adds, deletes, or changes the value of an attribute in a directory entry.
delete	Deletes an entry from a directory.
modifyDN	Renames a directory entry (changes its distinguished name).

The following table lists the attributes that are required and optional for each action. For more information on each attribute see CFML Reference.

Action	Required attributes	Optional attributes
query	server, name, start, attributes	port, username, password, timeout, secure, rebind, referral, scope, filter, sort, sortControl startRow, maxRows, separator, delimiter
add	server, dn, attributes	port, username, password, timeout, secure, rebind, referral, separator, delimiter
modify	server, dn, attributes	port, username, password, timeout, secure, rebind, referral, modifyType, separator, delimiter
modifyDN	server, dn, attributes	port, username, password, timeout, secure, rebind, referral
delete	server, dn	port, username, password, timeout, secure, rebind, referral

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