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+<?PHP
+/* Copyright (C) 2004 Rodolphe Quiedeville <rodolphe@quiedeville.org>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+ * or see http://www.gnu.org/
+ *
+ * $Id$
+ * $Source$
+ *
+ */
+
+Function dolibarr_ldap_connect()
+{
+  $ldapconnect = ldap_connect(LDAP_SERVER_HOST);
+
+  return $ldapconnect;
+}
+
+
+Function dolibarr_ldap_bind($ds)
+{
+
+  if (defined("LDAP_SERVER_PASS") && LDAP_SERVER_PASS)
+    {
+      $ldapbind = ldap_bind($ds, LDAP_SERVER_LOGIN, LDAP_SERVER_PASS);
+    }
+  else
+    {
+      $ldapbind = ldap_bind($ds, $dn);
+    }
+
+  return $ldapbind;
+}
+
+?>