<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >ldap_error</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_errno" HREF="function.ldap-errno.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="ldap_explode_dn" HREF="function.ldap-explode-dn.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-errno.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-explode-dn.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.ldap-error" ></A >ldap_error</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN42878" ></A ><P > (PHP 3>= 3.0.12, PHP 4 )</P >ldap_error -- Return the LDAP error message of the last LDAP command </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN42881" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >ldap_error</B > ( resource link_identifier)<BR ></BR ><P > Returns string error message.</P ><P > This function returns the string error message explaining the error generated by the last LDAP command for the given <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >link_identifier</I ></TT > While LDAP errno numbers are standardized, different libraries return different or even localized textual error messages. Never check for a specific error message text, but always use an error number to check.</P ><P > Unless you lower your warning level in your <TT CLASS="filename" >php.ini</TT > sufficiently or prefix your LDAP commands with <TT CLASS="literal" >@</TT > (at) characters to suppress warning output, the errors generated will also show up in your HTML output.</P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.ldap-err2str.html" ><B CLASS="function" >ldap_err2str()</B ></A > and <A HREF="function.ldap-errno.html" ><B CLASS="function" >ldap_errno()</B ></A >.</P ></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-errno.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-explode-dn.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >ldap_errno</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_explode_dn</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >