<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >ldap_get_values</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="LDAP functions" HREF="ref.ldap.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="ldap_get_entries" HREF="function.ldap-get-entries.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="ldap_get_values_len" HREF="function.ldap-get-values-len.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.ldap-get-entries.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.ldap-get-values-len.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.ldap-get-values" >ldap_get_values</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN15166" ></A >ldap_get_values -- Get all values from a result entry</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN15169" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><DIV CLASS="funcsynopsis" ><P ></P ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >array ldap_get_values</CODE >(int link_identifier, int result_entry_identifier, string attribute);<P ></P ></DIV ><P > Returns an array of values for the attribute on success and false on error.</P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >ldap_get_values()</B > function is used to read all the values of the attribute in the entry in the result. entry is specified by the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >result_entry_identifier</I ></TT >. The number of values can be found by indexing "count" in the resultant array. Individual values are accessed by integer index in the array. The first index is 0.</P ><P > This call needs a <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >result_entry_identifier</I ></TT >, so needs to be preceded by one of the ldap search calls and one of the calls to get an individual entry.</P ><P > You application will either be hard coded to look for certain attributes (such as "surname" or "mail") or you will have to use the <A HREF="function.ldap-get-attributes.html" ><B CLASS="function" >ldap_get_attributes()</B ></A > call to work out what attributes exist for a given entry.</P ><P > LDAP allows more than one entry for an attribute, so it can, for example, store a number of email addresses for one person's directory entry all labeled with the attribute "mail" <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><P ></P ><P CLASS="literallayout" ><br> return_value["count"] = number of values for attribute<br> return_value[0] = first value of attribute<br> return_value[i] = ith value of attribute<br> </P ><P ></P ></DIV > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><P ><B >Example 1. List all values of the "mail" attribute for a directory entry </B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" > 1 2 // $ds is a valid link identifier for a directory server 3 4 // $sr is a valid search result from a prior call to 5 // one of the ldap directory search calls 6 7 // $entry is a valid entry identifier from a prior call to 8 // one of the calls that returns a directory entry 9 10 $values = ldap_get_values($ds, $entry,"mail"); 11 12 echo $values["count"]." email addresses for this entry.<p>"; 13 14 for ($i=0; $i < $values["count"]; $i++) 15 echo $values[$i]."<br>"; 16 </PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.ldap-get-entries.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.ldap-get-values-len.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >ldap_get_entries</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.ldap.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >ldap_get_values_len</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >