Using PHP With LDAP (part 1) - What's In A Name? (
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The example on
the previous page was fairly static - all it did was return a list of all the
entries in the directory that had a "cn" attribute. This next example makes
things a little more interactive - it includes a form where the user can enter a
name and search the LDAP server for that name.
Here's the form,
<html>
<head>
<title>Search</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="search.php" method="POST">
<input type="text" name="name" length="30">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value = "Search">
</form>
</body>
</html>
and here's what it looks like:
And here's the code for the search script:
<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");
// create the search string
$query = "(cn=" . $_POST['name'] . ")";
// 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", $query) or die ("Error in search
query");
// get entry data as array
$info = ldap_get_entries($conn, $result);
// iterate over array and print data for each entry
echo "<ul>";
for ($i=0; $i<$info["count"]; $i++)
{
echo "<li>" . $info[$i]["cn"][0] ." - ".$info[$i]["mail"][0] . "</li>";
} echo "</ul>";
// 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>
The only difference between this script and the previous one
is that this time, the search criteria is dynamically generated using the data
POSTed from the form.
$query = "(cn=" . $_POST['name'] . ")";
This parameter is then passed to the ldap_search() function
and processed in the standard manner.
Here's what you should see,
assuming that you searched for the string "joe":
Simple when you know how, isn't it?
And that's
about it for this first part. In the second part of this article, I will be
showing you how to carry out more complex searches, and also add and delete
information from the LDAP directory. Stay tuned for that one.and, until next
time, stay healthy!
Note: Examples are illustrative only, and are not
meant for a production environment. Melonfire provides no warranties or support
for the source code described in this article. YMMV!
