<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >ldap_explode_dn</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_error" HREF="function.ldap-error.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="ldap_first_attribute" HREF="function.ldap-first-attribute.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-error.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-first-attribute.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.ldap-explode-dn" ></A >ldap_explode_dn</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN42899" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >ldap_explode_dn -- Splits DN into its component parts</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN42902" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >array <B CLASS="methodname" >ldap_explode_dn</B > ( string dn, int with_attrib)<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >ldap_explode_dn()</B > function is used to split the DN returned by <A HREF="function.ldap-get-dn.html" ><B CLASS="function" >ldap_get_dn()</B ></A > and breaks it up into its component parts. Each part is known as Relative Distinguished Name, or RDN. <B CLASS="function" >ldap_explode_dn()</B > returns an array of all those components. <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >with_attrib</I ></TT > is used to request if the RDNs are returned with only values or their attributes as well. To get RDNs with the attributes (i.e. in attribute=value format) set <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >with_attrib</I ></TT > to 0 and to get only values set it to 1.</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-error.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-first-attribute.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >ldap_error</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_first_attribute</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >