I have a project that we are working...

Articles and Tips: qna

01 Jul 2003

I have a project that we are working on and I need to retrieve an attribute from the schema of a user, from a PHP program. Specifically, I need to get their GUID. I can see it with LDAP browsers, but I cannot figure out how to get it out of there. I am using an LDAP_connect command to make sure that I am logged in.

I do realize that somewhere I need to specify "cn=schema" and possibly pull the attribute out of there, but I'm not sure how to do that with PHP. Here is the code that I am using for getting the attributes that I can see:

$entry = ldap_first_entry($ds, $sr);


	$attrs = ldap_get_attributes($ds,
			$entry);


	echo $attrs["count"]." attributes
			held for this entry:<p>";


	for ($i=0; $i<$attrs["count"]; $i++)
			echo $attrs[$i]."<br>";


		echo "Closing connection";


		ldap_close($ds);


	} else

I am not sure if I need to specify in the $ds cn=schema or what.

Do you want to get the schema definition for the GUID or the GUID value? If you want the value, there is no need for a cn=schema thing.

Make sure you are binding with correct credentials; otherwise, you'll not see every attribute. Also, put the ldap_close after your for() loop.

* Originally published in Novell AppNotes

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