Is LDAP obsolete?
authentication, ldap
Solution
LDAP is certainly not a dead technology. In web applications in general, perhaps, but we use LDAP authentication for a good deal of our intranet-based applications. So if you think your application might run inside an office somewhere, LDAP would be appreciated more than likely.
In addition, LDAP makes for a good way of abstracting authentication over lots of different means, Active Directory, Kerberos, even normal SQL-based authentication.
Problem
Should I spend time implementing LDAP for authentication in my web application(php)? Is it a 'dead' technology? If it is what are the alternatives? and, if its not, what are good resources i can use? (books, tutorials)