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YP/NIS Functions</H1 ><DIV CLASS="PARTINTRO" ><A NAME="AEN98203" ></A ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H1 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="nis.intro" ></A >Introduction</H1 ><P > NIS (formerly called Yellow Pages) allows network management of important administrative files (e.g. the password file). For more information refer to the NIS manpage and <A HREF="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/index.html" TARGET="_top" > The Linux NIS(YP)/NYS/NIS+ HOWTO</A >. There is also a book called <A HREF="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/nfs/noframes.html" TARGET="_top" >Managing NFS and NIS</A > by Hal Stern. </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B >This extension is not available on Windows platforms.</P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H1 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="nis.requirements" ></A >Requirements</H1 ><P > None besides functions from standard Unix libraries which are always available (either <TT CLASS="filename" >libc</TT > or <TT CLASS="filename" >libnsl</TT >, configure will detect which one to use). </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H1 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="nis.installation" ></A >Installation</H1 ><P > To get these functions to work, you have to configure PHP with <TT CLASS="option" >--enable-yp</TT >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H1 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="nis.configuration" ></A >Runtime Configuration</H1 ><P >This extension has no configuration directives defined in <TT CLASS="filename" >php.ini</TT >.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H1 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="nis.constants" ></A >Predefined Constants</H1 ><P > The constants below are defined by this extension, and will only be available when the extension has either been compiled into PHP or dynamically loaded at runtime. </P ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="variablelist" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="constant" ><B >YPERR_BADARGS</B ></TT > (<A HREF="language.types.integer.html" >integer</A >)</DT ><DD ><P > </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="constant" ><B >YPERR_BADDB</B ></TT > (<A HREF="language.types.integer.html" >integer</A >)</DT ><DD ><P > </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="constant" ><B >YPERR_BUSY</B ></TT > (<A HREF="language.types.integer.html" >integer</A >)</DT ><DD ><P > </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="constant" ><B >YPERR_DOMAIN</B ></TT > (<A HREF="language.types.integer.html" >integer</A >)</DT ><DD ><P > </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="constant" ><B >YPERR_KEY</B ></TT > (<A HREF="language.types.integer.html" >integer</A >)</DT ><DD ><P > </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="constant" ><B >YPERR_MAP</B ></TT > (<A HREF="language.types.integer.html" >integer</A >)</DT ><DD ><P > </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="constant" ><B >YPERR_NODOM</B ></TT > (<A HREF="language.types.integer.html" >integer</A >)</DT ><DD ><P > </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="constant" ><B >YPERR_NOMORE</B ></TT > (<A HREF="language.types.integer.html" >integer</A >)</DT ><DD ><P > </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="constant" ><B >YPERR_PMAP</B ></TT > (<A HREF="language.types.integer.html" >integer</A >)</DT ><DD ><P > </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="constant" ><B >YPERR_RESRC</B ></TT > (<A HREF="language.types.integer.html" >integer</A >)</DT ><DD ><P > </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="constant" ><B >YPERR_RPC</B ></TT > (<A HREF="language.types.integer.html" >integer</A >)</DT ><DD ><P > </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="constant" ><B >YPERR_YPBIND</B ></TT > (<A HREF="language.types.integer.html" >integer</A >)</DT ><DD ><P > </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="constant" ><B >YPERR_YPERR</B ></TT > (<A HREF="language.types.integer.html" >integer</A >)</DT ><DD ><P > </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="constant" ><B >YPERR_YPSERV</B ></TT > (<A HREF="language.types.integer.html" >integer</A >)</DT ><DD ><P > </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="constant" ><B >YPERR_VERS</B ></TT > (<A HREF="language.types.integer.html" >integer</A >)</DT ><DD ><P > </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="function.yp-all.html" >yp_all</A > -- Traverse the map and call a function on each entry </DT ><DT ><A HREF="function.yp-cat.html" >yp_cat</A > -- Return an array containing the entire map </DT ><DT ><A HREF="function.yp-err-string.html" >yp_err_string</A > -- Returns the error string associated with the previous operation </DT ><DT ><A HREF="function.yp-errno.html" >yp_errno</A > -- Returns the error code of the previous operation </DT ><DT ><A HREF="function.yp-first.html" >yp_first</A > -- Returns the first key-value pair from the named map </DT ><DT ><A HREF="function.yp-get-default-domain.html" >yp_get_default_domain</A > -- Fetches the machine's default NIS domain</DT ><DT ><A HREF="function.yp-master.html" >yp_master</A > -- Returns the machine name of the master NIS server for a map </DT ><DT ><A HREF="function.yp-match.html" >yp_match</A > -- Returns the matched line</DT ><DT ><A HREF="function.yp-next.html" >yp_next</A > -- Returns the next key-value pair in the named map.</DT ><DT ><A HREF="function.yp-order.html" >yp_order</A > -- Returns the order number for a map</DT ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ></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.yaz-wait.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" 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