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JLDAP

Description

LDAP client class

since: 1.5
author: Samuel Moffatt <[email protected]>

Located in /joomla/client/ldap.php (line 22)

 JLDAP   (Subpackage Client)

Variable Summary

bool $auth_method

string $base_dn

string $host

boolean $negotiate_tls

boolean $no_referrals

string $password

int $port

string $search_string

string $username

string $users_dn

boolean $use_ldapV3

string $_dn

mixed $_resource

Method Summary

JLDAP JLDAP ([object An $configObj = null])

void anonymous_bind ()

boolean bind ([string $username = null], [string $password = null], [ $nosub = 0])

void close ()

mixed compare (string $dn, string $attribute, string $value)

boolean connect ()

string getDN ()

string ipToNetAddress (string $ip)

void LDAPNetAddr ( $networkaddress)

array search (array $filters, [string $dnoverride = null])

void setDN (string $username, [ $nosub = 0])

void simple_search (string $search)

Variables

bool $auth_method = null (line 28)

var: Authorization Method to use

string $base_dn = null (line 34)

var: Base DN (e.g. o=MyDir)

string $host = null (line 25)

var: Hostname of LDAP server

boolean $negotiate_tls = null (line 49)

var: Negotiate TLS (encrypted communications)

boolean $no_referrals = null (line 46)

var: No referrals (server transfers)

string $password = null (line 56)

var: Password to connect to server

int $port = null (line 31)

var: Port of LDAP server

string $search_string = null (line 40)

var: Search String

string $username = null (line 53)

var: Username to connect to server

string $users_dn = null (line 37)

var: User DN (e.g. cn=Users,o=MyDir)

boolean $use_ldapV3 = null (line 43)

var: Use LDAP Version 3

string $_dn = null (line 63)

var: Current DN

mixed $_resource = null (line 60)

var: LDAP Resource Identifier

Methods

Constructor JLDAP (line 70)

Constructor

access: public

JLDAP JLDAP ([object An $configObj = null])

object An $configObj: object of configuration variables

anonymous_bind (line 145)

Anonymously Binds to LDAP Directory

void anonymous_bind ()

bind (line 157)

Binds to the LDAP directory

return: Result
access: public

boolean bind ([string $username = null], [string $password = null], $nosub)

string $username: The username
string $password: The password
$nosub

close (line 117)

Close the connection

access: public

void close ()

compare (line 234)

Compare an entry and return a true or false result

return: result of comparison (true, false, -1 on error)

mixed compare (string $dn, string $attribute, string $value)

string $dn: dn The DN which contains the attribute you want to compare
string $attribute: attribute The attribute whose value you want to compare
string $value: value The value you want to check against the LDAP attribute

connect (line 88)

Connect to server

return: True if successful
access: public

boolean connect ()

getDN (line 138)

return: The current dn
access: public

string getDN ()

ipToNetAddress (line 244)

Converts a dot notation IP address to net address (e.g. for Netware, etc)

return: Net address
access: public

string ipToNetAddress (string $ip)

string $ip: IP Address (e.g. xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)

LDAPNetAddr (line 273)

extract readable network address from the LDAP encoded networkAddress attribute.

author: Jay Burrell, Systems & Networks, Mississippi State University Please keep this document block and author attribution in place. Novell Docs, see: http://developer.novell.com/ndk/doc/ndslib/schm_enu/data/sdk5624.html#sdk5624 for Address types: http://developer.novell.com/ndk/doc/ndslib/index.html?page=/ndk/doc/ndslib/schm_enu/data/sdk4170.html LDAP Format, String: taggedData = uint32String "#" octetstring byte 0 = uint32String = Address Type: 0= IPX Address; 1 = IP Address byte 1 = char = "#" - separator byte 2+ = octetstring - the ordinal value of the address Note: with eDirectory 8.6.2, the IP address (type 1) returns correctly, however, an IPX address does not seem to. eDir 8.7 may correct this.

void LDAPNetAddr ( $networkaddress)

$networkaddress

search (line 189)

Perform an LDAP search

return: Multidimensional array of results
access: public

array search (array $filters, [string $dnoverride = null])

array $filters: Search Filters (array of strings)
string $dnoverride: DN Override

setDN (line 126)

Sets the DN with some template replacements

access: public

void setDN (string $username, $nosub)

string $username: The username
$nosub

simple_search (line 173)

Perform an LDAP search using comma seperated search strings