Export LDAP address book entries to HTML

Question

Preface

• we're setting up a company-wide search that should be able to search every bit of information
• our CRM software offers LDAP access to the in-application address book
• the search engine is not able to index contact data from LDAP - it can work on HTML pages and files only

Question

The easiest way to get the address book data available for the search engine is to generate a HTML page for each address book entry.

Are there existing open source solutions that we can use to generate (and update) that HTML pages?

The features we'd need are:

• Support for 1000+ contacts
• Nice HTML pages, valid HTML code
• Index file with link to every single page
• Support for objectClass person
• Support for multivalued mail fields
• Grouping of fields (company address fields grouped, home address fields grouped)

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ldap2html

From http://www.mylinuxproject.de/nf-index-mylinuxenglish-ldap_e.html works with some fixes, but internally uses ldapsearch without paging, so we don't get more than 500 entries.

Also, it generates one big list only.

Answer 1

You could roll your own - you could make a webserver out of PHP or perl and it would create your own HTML. There's quite a few LDAP admin tools that have HTML interfaces that could take you a good percentage of the way there.