[nycphp-talk] Retrieving LDAP data on DN of specific record
edward potter
edwardpotter at gmail.com
Thu Dec 21 10:45:12 EST 2006
LDAP was a plot by grad school English majors, started as a hoax - to
drive programmers crazy! For some strange reason, it just took off.
The syntax is insane.
sorry, I don't know the answer to this one! :-)
-ed
On 12/21/06, Randal Rust <randalrust at gmail.com> wrote:
> In my LDAP system, I can display all organizations. From that list, I
> need to link to a summary page. I have been trying to do this by
> passing the DN in the query string, and then using this function to
> retrieve the data:
>
> function viewOrganization($db, $value){
> global $display;
> $rs=ldap_read($db->ds, $db->dn, '(dn='.$value.')');
> if(!$rs){
> $display->errors=true;
> $display->errorM.='<p><strong>ERROR: '.ldap_error($ds).'</strong></p>';
> }
> if(!$display->errors){
> $info = ldap_get_entries($db->ds, $rs);
> print_r($info);
> }
> }
>
> The problem is that if I pass the DN, $info is always empty.
>
> If I modify things so that I pass the value of the custom RECORDID
> attribute, then it works fine. So why can't I retrieve on the DN?
>
> --
> Randal Rust
> R.Squared Communications
> www.r2communications.com
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