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Using PHP With LDAP (part 1)
By: Harish Kamath, (c) Melonfire
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    2003-04-04

    Table of Contents:
  • Using PHP With LDAP (part 1)
  • Looking For Answers
  • The Bare Necessities
  • Code Poet
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    Using PHP With LDAP (part 1) - Code Poet


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    Now that all the requirements are in place, let's put together a simple PHP script to connect to the LDAP server and display the contents of the directory. Take a look at the following code.

    <html> <head> </head> <body> <?php // specify the LDAP server to connect to $conn = ldap_connect("localhost") or die("Could not connect to server"); // bind to the LDAP server specified above $r = ldap_bind($conn) or die("Could not bind to server"); // start searching // specify both the start location and the search criteria // in this case, start at the top and return all entries $result = ldap_search($conn,"dc=my-domain,dc=com", "(cn=*)") or die ("Error in search query"); // get entry data as array $info = ldap_get_entries($conn, $result); // iterate over array and print data for each entry for ($i=0; $i<$info["count"]; $i++) { echo "dn is: ". $info[$i]["dn"] ."<br>"; echo "first cn is: ". $info[$i]["cn"][0] ."<br>"; echo "first email address is: ". $info[$i]["mail"][0] ."<p>"; } // print number of entries found echo "Number of entries found: " . ldap_count_entries($conn, $result) . "<p>"; // all done? clean up ldap_close($conn); ?> </body> </html>
    Run the script in your browser, and you should see something like this:



    Let's take a closer look at this script.

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