Ok. That makes sense. I have the structure printed out, so I shouldn't have
a problem.
> From: "Nick Talbott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 08:21:15 -0000
> To: "Mike Tuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "php mailing list"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [PHP] ldap_search()
>
> Mike
>
> The purpose of setting the basedn is to say "search in this branch of the
> directory".
>
> The only person who can really tell you what basedn to use is whoever
> designed or manages the structure of your LDAP server. Having said that, a
> base dn is commony something like ...
> o=Your Organisation,c=US
>
> Some LDAP managers also make consistent use of the "ou" or
> "organizationalUnit" attribute to provide a further logical division of the
> directory. If your directory is organised this way, and you want to
> restrict your search to just one ou in the organisation, you might set the
> basedn for the search to be
> ou=Whatever Section,o=Your Organisation,c=US
>
> HTH
>
> Nick Talbott
> IT Policy and Strategy Manager, Powys County Council, UK
>
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Tuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: php mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 08 March 2001 01:03
> Subject: [PHP] ldap_search()
>
>
>> Sorry about this, but I don't know much about LDAP, and the book I have
>> doesn't tell me much.
>>
>> I was shown the following script to grab information from an LDAP server
> and
>> display the results in a phonebook type format.
>>
>> <HTML>
>> <BODY>
>> <?php
>> $ldapserver = "ldap.something.com";
>> $basedn = "dc=something, dc=com";
>>
>> $dir =ldap_connect($ldapserver); // Connect to server
>>
>> if ($dir) {
>> ldap_bind($dir); // Bind to the server
>> $result = ldap_search($dir, $basedn, "sn=*"); // query connection, set
>> the base and look for any sn
>>
>> $info = ldap_get_entries($dir, $result); // The results get sent to the
>> $info object
>>
>> for ($i=0; $i<$info["count"]; $i++) { // Count is a ldap feature that
>> contains the length of the resultset
>> echo $info[$i]["cn"][0]; // choose any parameter you want see here
>> }
>>
>> ldap_close($dir);
>> }
>> ?>
>> </BODY>
>> </HTML>
>>
>>
>> The problem I am running into I think is that I work for a school district,
>> and I don't have a .com address. I have anoka.k12.mn.us. I tried to put in
>> $basedn = "dc=anoka, dc=k12, dc=mn, dc=us"; but I still receive an error on
>> ldap_search. Am I doing this correctly?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
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