<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >yp_match</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="NIS functions" HREF="ref.nis.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="yp_master" HREF="function.yp-master.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="yp_first" HREF="function.yp-first.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.yp-master.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.yp-first.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.yp-match" >yp_match</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN19596" ></A >yp_match -- Returns the matched line.</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN19599" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><DIV CLASS="funcsynopsis" ><P ></P ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >string yp_match</CODE >(string domain, string map, string key);<P ></P ></DIV ><P > <B CLASS="function" >yp_match()</B > returns the value associated with the passed key out of the specified map or FALSE. This key must be exact.</P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><P ><B >Example 1. Example for NIS match</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" > 1 2 <?php 3 $entry = yp_match($domain, "passwd.byname", "joe"); 4 echo "Matched entry is: " . $entry; 5 ?> 6 </PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > In this case this could be: joe:##joe:11111:100:Joe User:/home/j/joe:/usr/local/bin/bash </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.yp-get-default-domain.html" ><B CLASS="function" >yp-get-default-domain()</B ></A > </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.yp-master.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.yp-first.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >yp_master</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.nis.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >yp_first</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >