Last updated: Fri, 01 Jun 2007

LXXV. LDAP Functions

Introduction

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

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

Requirements

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

Installation

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 for this extension to work, there are DLL files that must be available to the Windows system PATH. See the FAQ titled "How do I add my PHP directory to the PATH on Windows" for information on how to do this. Although copying DLL files from the PHP folder into the Windows system directory also works (because the system directory is by default in the systems PATH), it is not recommended. This extension requires the following files to be in the PATH: libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll
Versions before PHP 4.3.0 additionally require libsasl.dll.

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

Runtime Configuration

The behaviour of these functions is affected by settings in php.ini.

Table 152. LDAP configuration options

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

For further details and definitions of the PHP_INI_* constants, see the Appendix I, php.ini directives.

Resource Types

Most LDAP functions operate on or return resources (e.g. ldap_connect() returns a positive LDAP link identifier required by most LDAP functions).

Predefined Constants

The constants below are defined by this extension, and will only be available when the extension has either been compiled into PHP or dynamically loaded at runtime.

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)

Examples

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

Example 1066. 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"

ldap_8859_to_t61 — Translate 8859 characters to t61 characters
ldap_add — Add entries to LDAP directory
ldap_bind — Bind to LDAP directory
ldap_close — Alias of ldap_unbind()
ldap_compare — Compare value of attribute found in entry specified with DN
ldap_connect — Connect to an LDAP server
ldap_count_entries — Count the number of entries in a search
ldap_delete — Delete an entry from a directory
ldap_dn2ufn — Convert DN to User Friendly Naming format
ldap_err2str — Convert LDAP error number into string error message
ldap_errno — Return the LDAP error number of the last LDAP command
ldap_error — Return the LDAP error message of the last LDAP command
ldap_explode_dn — Splits DN into its component parts
ldap_first_attribute — Return first attribute
ldap_first_entry — Return first result id
ldap_first_reference — Return first reference
ldap_free_result — Free result memory
ldap_get_attributes — Get attributes from a search result entry
ldap_get_dn — Get the DN of a result entry
ldap_get_entries — Get all result entries
ldap_get_option — Get the current value for given option
ldap_get_values_len — Get all binary values from a result entry
ldap_get_values — Get all values from a result entry
ldap_list — Single-level search
ldap_mod_add — Add attribute values to current attributes
ldap_mod_del — Delete attribute values from current attributes
ldap_mod_replace — Replace attribute values with new ones
ldap_modify — Modify an LDAP entry
ldap_next_attribute — Get the next attribute in result
ldap_next_entry — Get next result entry
ldap_next_reference — Get next reference
ldap_parse_reference — Extract information from reference entry
ldap_parse_result — Extract information from result
ldap_read — Read an entry
ldap_rename — Modify the name of an entry
ldap_sasl_bind — Bind to LDAP directory using SASL
ldap_search — Search LDAP tree
ldap_set_option — Set the value of the given option
ldap_set_rebind_proc — Set a callback function to do re-binds on referral chasing
ldap_sort — Sort LDAP result entries
ldap_start_tls — Start TLS
ldap_t61_to_8859 — Translate t61 characters to 8859 characters
ldap_unbind — Unbind from LDAP directory

add a note User Contributed Notes
LDAP Functions

jector at inbox dot ru
19-Mar-2007 05:01


Spent some time on fixing "Unable to load dynamic library 'php_ldap.dll'. Copied libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll  everywhere, but error still stands.



After digging all this dlls I found, that both libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll need msvcr70.dll (or msvcr71.dll, it depends on the compiler version). Then just copy that dll to system32\ dir and it works perfectly.

maykelsb at yahoo dot com dot br
12-Feb-2007 07:27


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
12-Dec-2006 01:33


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 02:34


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 04:05


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 04:43


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 08:28


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
25-Oct-2005 06:52


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
17-Oct-2005 03:53


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 11:32


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 06:28


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 10:04


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
19-Jan-2005 12:08


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 08:44


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 02:24


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
16-Nov-2004 07:51


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 12:36


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 07:32


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 08:26


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
17-May-2004 01:27


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 04:23


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 08:57


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 09:40


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 06:58


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
17-Jul-2003 05:49


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
27-May-2003 06:01


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 10:09


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 05:05


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 05:12


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
09-Nov-2002 06:44


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 01:26


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 04:41


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
11-Jul-2002 12:06


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
20-Jun-2002 03:48


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 10:40


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
05-May-2002 01:56


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 08:33


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 12:36


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 05:46


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 11:37


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 09:32


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 01:18


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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