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# LXXII. LDAP Functions

# Введение

LDAP is the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, and is a protocol used to access "Directory Servers". The Directory is a special kind of database that holds information in a tree structure.

The concept is similar to your hard disk directory structure, except that in this context, the root directory is "The world" and the first level subdirectories are "countries". Lower levels of the directory structure contain entries for companies, organisations or places, while yet lower still we find directory entries for people, and perhaps equipment or documents.

To refer to a file in a subdirectory on your hard disk, you might use something like:

/usr/local/myapp/docs

The forwards slash marks each division in the reference, and the sequence is read from left to right.

The equivalent to the fully qualified file reference in LDAP is the "distinguished name", referred to simply as "dn". An example dn might be:

cn=John Smith,ou=Accounts,o=My Company,c=US

The comma marks each division in the reference, and the sequence is read from right to left. You would read this dn as:

country = US
organization = My Company
organizationalUnit = Accounts
commonName = John Smith

In the same way as there are no hard rules about how you organise the directory structure of a hard disk, a directory server manager can set up any structure that is meaningful for the purpose. However, there are some conventions that are used. The message is that you can not write code to access a directory server unless you know something about its structure, any more than you can use a database without some knowledge of what is available.

Lots of information about LDAP can be found at

- Mozilla

- OpenLDAP Project

The Netscape SDK contains a helpful Programmer's Guide in HTML format.

# Требования

You will need to get and compile LDAP client libraries from either OpenLDAP or Bind9.net in order to compile PHP with LDAP support.

# Установка

LDAP support in PHP is not enabled by default. You will need to use the `--with-ldap[=DIR]` configuration option when compiling PHP to enable LDAP support. DIR is the LDAP base install directory. To enable SASL support, be sure `--with-ldap-sasl[=DIR]` is used, and that `sasl.h` exists on the system.

> Note to Win32 Users: In order to enable this module on a Windows environment, you must copy several files from the DLL folder of the PHP/Win32 binary package to the SYSTEM folder of your windows machine. (Ex: `C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32`, or `C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM`). For PHP <= 4.2.0 copy `libsasl.dll`, for PHP >= 4.3.0 copy `libeay32.dll` and `ssleay32.dll` to your SYSTEM folder.

In order to use Oracle LDAP libraries, proper Oracle environment has to be set.

# Настройка во время выполнения

Поведение этих функций зависит от установок в `php.ini`.

Таблица 1. LDAP configuration options

Name | Default | Changeable | Changelog
--- | --- | --- | ---
ldap.max_links | "-1" | PHP_INI_SYSTEM |

Для подробного описания констант PHP_INI_*, обратитесь к документации функции ini_set().

# Типы ресурсов

Данное расширение не определяет никакие типы ресурсов.

# Предопределенные константы

Перечисленные ниже константы определены данным расширением и могут быть доступны только в том случае, если PHP был собран с поддержкой этого расширения или же в том случае, если данное расширение подгружается во время выполнения.

`LDAP_DEREF_NEVER` (integer)

`LDAP_DEREF_SEARCHING` (integer)

`LDAP_DEREF_FINDING` (integer)

`LDAP_DEREF_ALWAYS` (integer)

`LDAP_OPT_DEREF` (integer)

`LDAP_OPT_SIZELIMIT` (integer)

`LDAP_OPT_TIMELIMIT` (integer)

`LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION` (integer)

`LDAP_OPT_ERROR_NUMBER` (integer)

`LDAP_OPT_REFERRALS` (integer)

`LDAP_OPT_RESTART` (integer)

`LDAP_OPT_HOST_NAME` (integer)

`LDAP_OPT_ERROR_STRING` (integer)

`LDAP_OPT_MATCHED_DN` (integer)

`LDAP_OPT_SERVER_CONTROLS` (integer)

`LDAP_OPT_CLIENT_CONTROLS` (integer)

`LDAP_OPT_DEBUG_LEVEL` (integer)

`GSLC_SSL_NO_AUTH` (integer)

`GSLC_SSL_ONEWAY_AUTH` (integer)

`GSLC_SSL_TWOWAY_AUTH` (integer)

# Примеры

Retrieve information for all entries where the surname starts with "S" from a directory server, displaying an extract with name and email address.

Пример 1. LDAP search example

`<?php
// basic sequence with LDAP is connect, bind, search, interpret search
// result, close connection
echo "<h3>LDAP query test</h3>";
echo "Connecting ...";
$ds=ldap_connect("localhost"); // must be a valid LDAP server!
echo "connect result is " . $ds . "<br />";
if ($ds) {
echo "Binding ...";
$r=ldap_bind($ds); // this is an "anonymous" bind, typically
// read-only access
echo "Bind result is " . $r . "<br />";
echo "Searching for (sn=S*) ...";
// Search surname entry
$sr=ldap_search($ds, "o=My Company, c=US", "sn=S*");
echo "Search result is " . $sr . "<br />";
echo "Number of entires returned is " . ldap_count_entries($ds, $sr) . "<br />";
echo "Getting entries ...<p>";
$info = ldap_get_entries($ds, $sr);
echo "Data for " . $info["count"] . " items returned:<p>";
for ($i=0; $i<$info["count"]; $i++) {
echo "dn is: " . $info[$i]["dn"] . "<br />";
echo "first cn entry is: " . $info[$i]["cn"][0] . "<br />";
echo "first email entry is: " . $info[$i]["mail"][0] . "<br /><hr />";
}
echo "Closing connection";
ldap_close($ds);
} else {
echo "<h4>Unable to connect to LDAP server</h4>";
}
?>`

# Using the PHP LDAP calls

Before you can use the LDAP calls you will need to know ..

- The name or address of the directory server you will use

- The "base dn" of the server (the part of the world directory that is held on this server, which could be "o=My Company,c=US")

- Whether you need a password to access the server (many servers will provide read access for an "anonymous bind" but require a password for anything else)

The typical sequence of LDAP calls you will make in an application will follow this pattern:

ldap_connect() // establish connection to server
|
ldap_bind() // anonymous or authenticated "login"
|
do something like search or update the directory
and display the results
|
ldap_close() // "logout"

add a note User Contributed Notes
LDAP Functions
maykelsb at yahoo dot com dot br
12-Feb-2007 11:27
`Problems with ldap_search in W2k3, can be solved adding
// -- $conn is a valid ldap connection.
ldap_set_option($conn, LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION,3);
ldap_set_option($conn, LDAP_OPT_REFERRALS,0);
before ldap_bind, as sad in http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=30670.`
unroar at gmail dot com
11-Dec-2006 05:33
`In Solaris 9 the libnet library is a prerequisite for building PHP with LDAP, SASL and SSL (libnet is available on Sunfreeware).
I didn't see this mentioned anywhere and I'm not sure if it is required by ldap or sasl or ssl. I just spent an hour on Google with no luck before I figured it out, maybe this comment will help the next googler.
The error is,
ld: fatal: library -lnet: not found
ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to sapi/cli/php
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [sapi/cli/php] Error 1`
nigelf at esp dot co dot uk
16-Nov-2006 06:34
`Chasing referrals in Active Directory (ie: searching across domains), can be slow. You can look up the object instead in the GC (Global Catalog) as follows:
Remove any reference to ldap:// when you use ldap_connect, ie: use "serv1.mydom.com" NOT "ldap://serv1.mydom.com"
Connect to port 3268 (not 389, the default)
Set the Base DN for the search to null ie: "" (empty quotes).
AD will then run the search against the GC which holds a copy of all objects in the Forest. You can also retrieve a subset of attributes (including group membership, except local groups).
You will still need to follow referals for a full set of attributes.`
gcathell at thetdgroup dot com
07-Jul-2006 09:05
`I recently had to access a Microsoft Active Directory server as an LDAP service over SSL using PHP. It took me a long time to get all the information I needed to get it to work.
I attempted to post a note here with the details but it ended it being too long. I've placed the details at the following URL in hopes that someone else will benefit and will be able to solve the problem much more quickly than I did.
http://greg.cathell.net/php_ldap_ssl.html
Good luck!`
brudinie at yahoo dot co dot uk
26-Jan-2006 08:43
`LDAP Active Directory Last Logon (lastlogon).
This took me an entire day to work out. If you want to get the last logon date from an active directory account, you have to convert it from AD time stamp to unix time stamp.
Once you've got a unix time stamp, PHP can format it as a date.
Here is the code to do it:
$dateLargeInt=$info[$i]["lastlogon"][0]; // nano seconds (yes, nano seconds) since jan 1st 1601
$secsAfterADEpoch = $dateLargeInt / (10000000); // seconds since jan 1st 1601
$ADToUnixConvertor=((1970-1601) * 365.242190) * 86400; // unix epoch - AD epoch * number of tropical days * seconds in a day
$unixTsLastLogon=intval($secsAfterADEpoch-$ADToUnixConvertor); // unix Timestamp version of AD timestamp
$lastlogon=date("d-m-Y", $unixTsLastLogon); // formatted date`
nacenroe at remove dot this dot nystec dot com
19-Dec-2005 12:28
`If you're looking to use PHP to integrate LDAP with AD (I'm working with Win2K3), you may want to tinker with the LDP.exe tool included (no resource kit needed!!) with Win2k and Win2K3. You can run this app right from the command line.
The Win2K3 Help function was a good start point, and then pointed me to an article in the M$ KB: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;255602 (XADM: Browsing and Querying Using the LDP Utility).
So ... if your connect/bindings are working but your queries are not, you may want to start here. I'm finding it very useful when I run it on the local AD to see the attributes, etc.`
ooja at roceindhoven dot nl
24-Oct-2005 11:52
`If you bind anonymousely to a Windows 2003 Server (Active Directory) and you perform a ldap_search you will get an search operations error. You have to use a login and a password when binding!
I personally found alot of good information here:
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/sst/php/extra/ldap.html`
christopherbyrne at hotmail dot com
16-Oct-2005 08:53
`Just an ammendment to my previous post: my calculations were using east coast Australian time (GMT+10) whereas the Unix timestamp is in GMT. Therefore Active Directoy's "accountexpires" integer value does start from 1-Jan-1601 00:00:00 GMT and the number of seconds between this date and 1-Jan-1970 00:00:00 GMT is 11644524000.
The increments are still definately in 100 nanoseconds though!`
christopherbyrne at hotmail dot com
16-Oct-2005 04:32
`For anyone who's been having trouble working with the "accountexpires" attribute in Active Directory after having read the following article
www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/
resources/qanda/sept05/hey0902.mspx
or something similar, this may save you some frustration. In the article is is mentioned that this attribute is an integer representing the number of nanoseconds since 01-Jan-1601 00:00:00.
However the "accountexpires" attribute actually seems to be the number of 100 nanosecond increments since 31-Dec-1600 14:00:00. As a result if you divide the integer by 10,000,000 and subtract 11644560000 you will get a Unix timestamp that will match the dates in AD.
To set the "accountexpires" date just reverse the procedure, that is, get the timestamp for the new date you want, add 11644560000 and multiply by 10,000,000. You will also need to format the resultant number to make sure it is not outputted in scientific notation for AD to be happy with it.
Hope this helps!`
hijinio at comcast dot net
28-Jul-2005 11:28
`In case anybody has trouble configuring PHP with LDAP support on a Solaris 10 box, here is the configure line I used:
./configure --with-nsapi=/opt/SUNWwbsvr --enable-libgcc --disable-libxml --with-ldap=/usr/local --prefix=/opt/php/php-5.0.4
The important part to note is the location used for --with-ldap= ; which for most S10 people, will be "--with-ldap=/usr/local".`
jpmens at gmail dot com
11-Mar-2005 02:04
`Further to jabba at zeelandnet dot nl's note. If you are trying to connect to an LDAPS URI with OpenLDAP, you can either create the configuration file as described by jabba, or alternatively, use the environment settings to set LDAPTLS_REQCERT=never as described in ldap.conf(5).`
scott at wiggumworld dot com
18-Jan-2005 04:08
`You can find a PHP class that works well with Active Directory here:
http://www.wiggumworld.com/adldap/`
Richie Bartlett(at)ITsystems-Online com
20-Dec-2004 12:44
`This is an update to <i>wtfo at technocraft dot com</i> (23-May-2002 03:40)... This function allows additional (optional) parameters. The prev function listed, failed to close the ldap connection after successful authenication.
<?php
function checkNTuser($username,$password,$DomainName="myDomain",
$ldap_server="ldap://PDC.example.net"){//v0.9
// returns true when user/pass enable bind to LDAP (Windows 2k).
$auth_user=$username."@".$DomainName;
#echo $auth_user."->";
if($connect=@ldap_connect($ldap_server)){
#echo "connection ($ldap_server): ";
if($bind=@ldap_bind($connect, $auth_user, $password)){
#echo "true <BR>";
@ldap_close($connect);
return(true);
}//if bound to ldap
}//if connected to ldap
#echo "failed <BR>";
@ldap_close($connect);
return(false);
}//end function checkNTuser
?>`
xxoes at gmx dot de
08-Dec-2004 06:24
`Yes you musst use LDAP with SSL!
$newPassword = "\"" . $new_password . "\"";
$len = strlen($newPassword);
$newPassw = "";
for($i=0;$i<$len;$i++)
$newPassw .= "{$newPassword{$i}}\000";
$userdata["unicodepwd"] = $newPassw;
ldap_mod_replace($dn, $userdata);
My Windows php binary "PHP Version 4.3.9" dos not support LDAP with SSL, i have use stunnel to create a ssl connection.`
jabba at zeelandnet dot nl
15-Nov-2004 11:51
`When using PHP on windows, and you are trying to connect (bind) to a Netware (6) LDAP server that requires secure connections (LDAPS), PHP will return a message stating that the server cannot be found.
A network traffic capture of the traffic taking place on connection attempt reveals that the server supplies a certificate for use in the SSL connection, but this is rejected (***bad certificate SSLv3 packet) by the client.
The reason for this is probably that the PHP LDAP implementation tries to verify the received certificate with the CA that issued the certificate. There may be a way to make it possible that this verification succeeds, but it is also possible to disable this verification by the client (which is, in this case, PHP) by creating an openldap (surprise!!) configuration file.
The location of this configuration file seems to be hardcoded in the LDAP support module for windows, and you may need to manually create the following directory structure:
C:\openldap\sysconf\
In the sysconf folder, create a text file named 'ldap.conf' (you can use notepad for this) and, to disable certificate verification, place the following line in the ldap.conf file:
TLS_REQCERT never
After this, all the normal ldap_bind calls will work, provided your supplied user id and password are correct.`
spam2004 at turniton dot dk
29-Oct-2004 05:36
`Here are two small functions that enables you to convert a binary objectSID from Microsoft AD into a more usefull text version (formatted (S-1-5.....)).
// Converts a little-endian hex-number to one, that 'hexdec' can convert
function littleEndian($hex) {
for ($x=strlen($hex)-2; $x >= 0; $x=$x-2) {
$result .= substr($hex,$x,2);
}
return $result;
}
// Returns the textual SID
function binSIDtoText($binsid) {
$hex_sid=bin2hex($binsid);
$rev = hexdec(substr($hex_sid,0,2)); // Get revision-part of SID
$subcount = hexdec(substr($hex_sid,2,2)); // Get count of sub-auth entries
$auth = hexdec(substr($hex_sid,4,12)); // SECURITY_NT_AUTHORITY
$result = "$rev-$auth";
for ($x=0;$x < $subcount; $x++) {
$subauth[$x] = hexdec(littleEndian(substr($hex_sid,16+($x*8),8))); // get all SECURITY_NT_AUTHORITY
$result .= "-".$subauth[$x];
}
return $result;
}
echo binSIDtoText($bin_sid);`
Jimmy Wimenta Oei
23-Sep-2004 12:32
`If you want to disable/enable chase referral option, you need to first set the protocol version to version 3, otherwise the LDAP_OPT_REFERRALS option will not have any effect. This is especially true for querying MS Active Directory.
<?php
ldap_set_option($ds, LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION, 3);
ldap_set_option($ds, LDAP_OPT_REFERRALS, 0);
?>
And as always, these should be called after connect but before binding.`
dmeehan at flcancer dot com
12-Aug-2004 01:26
`If your having problems running LDAP searches on the base DC against Active Directory 2k3, you need to set dsHeuristics to 0000002 in Active Directory. This allows searches to function similar to how they did in Active Directory 2k2. You can update dsHeuristics by launching ldp.exe goto 'connection' and create a new connection. Then goto bind and bind to your ldap server. Next select the 'Browse' menu and choose 'modify'. The DN *might* look like this:
CN=Directory Service,CN=Windows NT,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=mycompany,DC=com
Attribute is: dsHeuristics
Value is: 0000002
Set the operation to replace and you should be set.
This solves the 'Operations error' error that happens when attempting to search without specifying an OU.
-d`
Sami Oksanen
16-May-2004 06:27
`I edited Jon Caplinger's code which is located below (date: 09-Nov-2002 05:44).
- I corrected line
"if (!($connect=@ldap_connect($ldap))) {" with
"if (!($connect=@ldap_connect($ldap_server))) {"
- Removed $name-attribute
- "Name is:"-field was always an Array, so I changed printing line to:
" echo "Name is: ". $info[$i]["name"][0]."<br>";"
I also added some alternative search filters to try out.
Here is the code:
<?php
$ldap_server = "ldap://foo.bar.net";
$auth_user = "user@bar.net";
$auth_pass = "mypassword";
// Set the base dn to search the entire directory.
$base_dn = "DC=bar, DC=net";
// Show only user persons
$filter = "(&(objectClass=user)(objectCategory=person)(cn=*))";
// Enable to show only users
// $filter = "(&(objectClass=user)(cn=$*))";
// Enable to show everything
// $filter = "(cn=*)";
// connect to server
if (!($connect=@ldap_connect($ldap_server))) {
die("Could not connect to ldap server");
}
// bind to server
if (!($bind=@ldap_bind($connect, $auth_user, $auth_pass))) {
die("Unable to bind to server");
}
//if (!($bind=@ldap_bind($connect))) {
// die("Unable to bind to server");
//}
// search active directory
if (!($search=@ldap_search($connect, $base_dn, $filter))) {
die("Unable to search ldap server");
}
$number_returned = ldap_count_entries($connect,$search);
$info = ldap_get_entries($connect, $search);
echo "The number of entries returned is ". $number_returned."<p>";
for ($i=0; $i<$info["count"]; $i++) {
echo "Name is: ". $info[$i]["name"][0]."<br>";
echo "Display name is: ". $info[$i]["displayname"][0]."<br>";
echo "Email is: ". $info[$i]["mail"][0]."<br>";
echo "Telephone number is: ". $info[$i]["telephonenumber"][0]."<p>";
}
?>`
ant at solace dot mh dot se
26-Feb-2004 08:23
`When working with LDAP, its worth remembering that the majority
of LDAP servers encode their strings as UTF-8. What this means
for non ascii strings is that you will need to use the utf8_encode and
utf8_decode functions when creating filters for the LDAP server.
Of course, if you can its simpler to just avoid using non-ascii characters
but for most sites the users like to see their strange native character
sets including umlauts etc..
If you just get ? characters where you are expecting non-ascii, then
you might just need to upgrade your PHP version.`
pookey at pookey dot co dot uk
07-Oct-2003 01:57
`This is an example of how to query an LDAP server, and print all entries out.
<?php
$ldapServer = '127.0.0.1';
$ldapBase = 'DC=anlx,DC=net';
/*
* try to connect to the server
*/
$ldapConn = ldap_connect($ldapServer);
if (!$ldapConn)
{
die('Cannot Connect to LDAP server');
}
/*
* bind anonymously
*/
$ldapBind = ldap_bind($ldapConn);
if (!$ldapBind)
{
die('Cannot Bind to LDAP server');
}
/*
* set the ldap options
*/
ldap_set_option($ldapConn, LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION, 3);
/*
* search the LDAP server
*/
$ldapSearch = ldap_search($ldapConn, $ldapBase, "(cn=*)");
$ldapResults = ldap_get_entries($ldapConn, $ldapSearch);
for ($item = 0; $item < $ldapResults['count']; $item++)
{
for ($attribute = 0; $attribute < $ldapResults[$item]['count']; $attribute++)
{
$data = $ldapResults[$item][$attribute];
echo $data.":&nbsp;&nbsp;".$ldapResults[$item][$data][0]."<br>";
}
echo '<hr />';
}
?>`
paul at datacom dot bg
15-Aug-2003 02:40
`This note is for people trying to load extensions which require additional dlls on W2k/XP.
As stated in the installation notes one has to copy those libraries to %SystemRoot%\system32 directory.
Generally it's not a good idea to copy files from left to right and back especially for the system folder.
The result is always a mess. I hope you'll find my way to get things working for more elegant than just copying files.
Leave those dlls where they are in dlls folder under PHP's installation path. Then edit environment variables so that the system variable PATH to include the dlls' folder. You may need to reboot the system. That's all, nice and clean.
One who doesn't know what I'm talking about should go this way:
My Computer - > Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables ... -> System variables.`
mrowe at pointsystems dot com
06-Aug-2003 11:58
`FWIW,
Before anyone else wastes a day scratching their head wondering why they can't search Active Directory...
I wasn't able to search on Active Directory until I did this (immediately after the ldap_connect):
ldap_set_option($connect, LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION, 3);
I was able to ldap_bind if I didn't set this option, but I kept receiving errors. Also note, I had to set the option BEFORE binding.`
hkemale at hkem dot com
16-Jul-2003 10:49
`For IIS+PHP+NTFS file system user
After copied <php_dir>/dlls/*.dll to <windows>/systems32/ remember to add read and exexcute premission to "everyone" and the extensions *.dll. this can prevent warning of Access is denied of php_ldap.dll`
greatsafari at hotmail dot com
26-May-2003 11:01
`Having seen so many variations of methods for connecting and query the Active Directory server, it really makes me suspect that the whole thing is dependent of the Active Directory configurations. Looking at this post at:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/mail/php-general/2003022/1459.php
Some methods proven to be working in one instance failed at another instance.`
nliu99 at nospam dot yahoo dot com
29-Apr-2003 03:09
`libsasl.dll is NOT required for ldap functionalities. Go check out the posting at: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=9485
On win2k I followed these easy steps and got ldap to work:
1. copy php_ldap.dll from the extension folder to winnt/system32
2. edit winnt/php.ini so that ldap is enabled (uncomment the line).
3. restart IIS.
That's it and have fun with ldap.
A note for Microsoft Active Directory
1. You can login with the user email, i.e. user@company.com
2. It's easiest to search for user info with ldap_search by filtering: (userprincipalname=[user])`
egeczi at nospamplease dot dist113 dot org
01-Apr-2003 09:05
`On Win2k Server running IIS, it is not enough to just restart IIS after enabling the php_ldap extension. You have to restart the server itself.`
yorch at correo dot ath dot cx
03-Mar-2003 09:12
`Some notes about running LDAP extension on a Win2k box:
After copying php_ldap.php and libsasl.dll in every single directory possible (c:\WinNT\System32, c:\php ...) I decided to read the installation.txt file.
The instructions to install php extensions say: "Some extra DLLs are required for some PHP extensions. Please copy the bundled dlls from the 'dlls/' directory in distribution package to your windows/system (Win9.x) or winnt/system32 (WinNT, Win2000, XP) directory. If you already have these DLLs installed on your system, overwrite them only if something is not working correctly."
So I did exactly that: copy ALL the dll files from "c:\php\dlls" to "c:\WinNT\System32".
Now they load beautifully ;-)
I hope this helps someone.`
jon dot caplinger at broadwing dot com
08-Nov-2002 10:44
`Here is an example of searching active directory in w2k. Active directory requires a user account that has permissions to search the tree.
/* The following values are used for the example:
1. Domain = microsoft.com
2. Server = unstable
3. User = bgates
4. Password = iloveopensource
*/
// Get name value to search for from submitted form.
if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS["name"])) {
$name = $HTTP_GET_VARS["name"];
}
$ldap_server = "ldap://unstable.microsoft.com";
$auth_user = "bgates@microsoft.com";
$auth_pass = "iloveopensource";
// Set the base dn to search the entire microsoft.com directory.
$base_dn = "DC=microsoft, DC=com";
/* filter the search for all people in the microsoft.com tree that have a name that matches any one of the following attributes name, displayname, or cn. */
$filter = "(&(objectClass=user)(objectCategory=person)
(|(name=$name*)(displayname=$name*)(cn=$name*)))";
// connect to server
if (!($connect=@ldap_connect($ldap))) {
die("Could not connect to ldap server");
}
// bind to server
if (!($bind=@ldap_bind($connect, $auth_user, $auth_pass))) {
die("Unable to bind to server");
}
// search active directory
if (!($search=@ldap_search($connect, $base_dn, $filter))) {
die("Unable to search ldap server");
}
$number_returned = ldap_count_entries($connect,$search);
$info = ldap_get_entries($connect, $search);
echo "The number of entries returned is ". $number_returned;
for ($i=0; $i<$info["count"]; $i++) {
echo "Name is: ". $info[$i]["name"];
echo "Display name is: ". $info[$i]["displayname"][0];
echo "Email is: ". $info[$i]["mail"][0];
echo "Telephone number is: ". $info[$i]["telephonenumber"][0];
}`
gerbille at free dot fr
10-Oct-2002 06:26
`The MD5 of PHP returns a result encoded in base16. But the LDAP MD5 returns a string encoded in base64.
$pwd="toto";
$pwd_md5=base64_encode(mhash(MHASH_MD5,$pwd));
Just add "{MD5}" front $pwd_md5 to obtain the same format as LDAP directory.
Bye
Aur�lia`
mike at whisperedlies dot org
09-Sep-2002 09:41
`In addition to the netBIOS suggestion above, when binding to a Windows2k AD server, you can use the UPN of the intended user. For instance, if your SAM account name is firstname.lastname and your domain is domainname.com, your UPN might be firstname.lastname@domainname.com
This can be used to bind to AD. I've not seen any difference in any of the methods.`
rusko dot marton at gibzone dot hu
10-Jul-2002 05:06
`You can authenticate to a Windows 2000 domain's ldap server easily by using the simplified netbios form of the username.
Somebody written:
When authenticating to a Win2k LDAP server, the name of the person must be
the FULL NAME in the dn
NO. You can use this form:
$user = "DOMAINNAME\\username"
$password = "Password_of_user";
if (!$connect = ldap_connect("<server>", <port>)) {
//error
exit;
}
if (!$res = @ldap_bind($ldap, $user, $password)) {
//error
exit;
}
It works fine with Active Directory, we use it.`
knitterb at blandsite dot org
19-Jun-2002 08:48
`When using PHP 4.2.1 with OpenLDAP 2.1.2 I was having problems with binding to the ldap server. I found that php was using an older protocol and added the following to the slapd.conf:
allow bind_v2
See ``man slapd.conf'' for more info about the allow item in the slapd.conf file, this is all I know! :)`
wtfo at technocraft dot com
23-May-2002 03:40
`This worked for me:
function checkNTUser ($username,$password) {
$ldapserver = 'Your Server';
$ds=ldap_connect($ldapserver);
if ($ds) {
$dn="cn=$username,cn=Users, DC=[sitename], DC=[sitesuffix]";
$r=@ldap_bind($ds,$dn,$password);
if ($r) { return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
}`
sukhruprai at yahoo dot com
04-May-2002 06:56
`There is an article about how to compile openldap on windows. Openldap binaries are also available for download (for windows).
http://www.fivesight.com/downloads/openldap.asp`
php ^ pixelcop , com
23-Apr-2002 01:33
`For those trying to do LDAP authentication with Lotus Domino NAB, the following has worked for me (based on the win2k example by webmaster@autourdupc.com) :
$ip = "localhost";
$dn="CN=Joe Blo, O=myOrganization";
$password = "password";
if (!($ldap = ldap_connect($ip))) {
die ("Could not connect to LDAP server");
}
print "connected to <b>$ip</b><br/>";
if (!($res = @ldap_bind($ldap, $dn, $password))) {
die ("Could not bind to $dn");
}
print "user <b>$dn</b> authenticated.<br/>";
$sdn = "O=myOrganization";
$filter = "(objectclass=*)";
print "executing search...<b>DN: $sdn; Filter: $filter</b><br/>";
$sr=ldap_search($ldap, $sdn, $filter);
$info = ldap_get_entries($ldap, $sr);
print $info["count"]." entries returned<hr>";
print "<PRE>";
print_r($info);
print "</PRE>";`
webmaster at autourdupc dot com
31-Dec-2001 04:36
`When authenticating to a Win2k LDAP server, the name of the person must be the FULL NAME in the dn
NB : nothing is case sensitive !
$dn="cn=DUPOND John, cn=Users, dc=autourdupc, dc=com"
$password = "Password_of_DUPOND";
Then when you bind to the LDAP database you use:
if (!($ldap = ldap_connect("<server>", <port>))) {
die ("Could not connect to LDAP server");
}
if (!($res = @ldap_bind($ldap, $dn, $password))) {
die ("Could not bind to $dn");
}
Hope this will usefull for everyone !`
bounty_arz at hotmail dot com
26-Nov-2001 09:46
`Hi,
There is a way to Access Active Directory :
- You will have to bind as admin :
eg: administrator@yourdomain.com
or as a user :
eg: fschultz@yourdomain.com
(because you can't search the Subtree as anonymous).
Then you can query, add, delete and modify entries if you respect the syntax of the MS schema.
F.B
http://www.imphar.com`
yapt at techNOSPAMnovell dot com
14-Oct-2001 04:37
`I have found this new site with a lot of information about LDAP:
http://www.ldapzone.com/`
mleaver at scis dot ecu dot edu dot au
08-Mar-2001 01:32
`When authenticating to a Win2k LDAP server you must include the name of the person authenticating to the server in the dn
i.e. cn=administrator, cn=users, dc=server, dc=domain, dc=country
Then when you bind to the LDAP database you use:
$res = ldap_bind($ldap, $dn, $password);
So a full example would be:
if (!($ldap = ldap_connect("<server>", <port>))) {
die ("Could not connect to LDAP server");
}
$dn = "cn=administrator, cn=users, dc=myserver, dc=com, dc=au";
$password = "MyPassword";
if (!($res = @ldap_bind($ldap, $dn, $password))) {
die ("Could not bind to $dn");
}
Then you do your list or search functions on the ldap database.`
ron at opus1 dot com
24-Feb-2000 05:18
`Note that when you are using loops to search through attributes, you must handle [dn] separately, otherwise each iteration of the loop will only return each character of the dn, left to right, and the array for dn of "cn=boo" would be:
dn [0]="c"
dn [1]="n"
dn [2]="="
dn [3]="b"
dn [4]="o"
dn [5]="o"
Not too much fun to debug. ;-)`
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