<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >ldap_bind</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="LDAP functions" HREF="ref.ldap.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="ldap_add" HREF="function.ldap-add.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="ldap_close" HREF="function.ldap-close.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation 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-add.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.ldap-close.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.ldap-bind" ></A >ldap_bind</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN42651" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >ldap_bind -- Bind to LDAP directory</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN42654" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >bool <B CLASS="methodname" >ldap_bind</B > ( resource link_identifier [, string bind_rdn [, string bind_password]])<BR ></BR ><P > Binds to the LDAP directory with specified RDN and password. Returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT > on success or <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > on failure.</P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >ldap_bind()</B > does a bind operation on the directory. <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >bind_rdn</I ></TT > and <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >bind_password</I ></TT > are optional. If not specified, anonymous bind is attempted. </P ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN42675" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. Using LDAP Bind</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php // using ldap bind $ldaprdn = 'uname'; // ldap rdn or dn $ldappass = 'password'; // associated password // connect to ldap server $ldapconn = ldap_connect("ldap.example.com") or die("Could not connect to LDAP server."); if ($ldapconn) { // binding to ldap server $ldapbind = ldap_bind($ldapconn, $ldaprdn, $ldappass); // verify binding if ($ldapbind) { echo "LDAP bind successful..."; } else { echo "LDAP bind failed..."; } } ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN42678" ></A ><P ><B >Example 2. Using LDAP Bind Anonymously</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php //using ldap bind anonymously // connect to ldap server $ldapconn = ldap_connect("ldap.example.com") or die("Could not connect to LDAP server."); if ($ldapconn) { // binding anonymously $ldapbind = ldap_bind($ldapconn); if ($ldapbind) { echo "LDAP bind anonymous successful..."; } else { echo "LDAP bind anonymous failed..."; } } ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.ldap-add.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.ldap-close.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >ldap_add</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.ldap.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >ldap_close</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >