<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >ldap_get_attributes</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_free_result" HREF="function.ldap-free-result.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="ldap_get_dn" HREF="function.ldap-get-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-free-result.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-get-dn.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.ldap-get-attributes" ></A >ldap_get_attributes</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN43011" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >ldap_get_attributes -- Get attributes from a search result entry</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN43014" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >array <B CLASS="methodname" >ldap_get_attributes</B > ( resource link_identifier, resource result_entry_identifier)<BR ></BR ><P > Returns a complete entry information in a multi-dimensional array on success and <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > on error.</P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >ldap_get_attributes()</B > function is used to simplify reading the attributes and values from an entry in the search result. The return value is a multi-dimensional array of attributes and values.</P ><P > Having located a specific entry in the directory, you can find out what information is held for that entry by using this call. You would use this call for an application which "browses" directory entries and/or where you do not know the structure of the directory entries. In many applications you will be searching for a specific attribute such as an email address or a surname, and won't care what other data is held.</P ><P > <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><A NAME="AEN43031" ></A ><P ></P ><P CLASS="literallayout" ><br> return_value["count"] = number of attributes in the entry<br> return_value[0] = first attribute<br> return_value[n] = nth attribute<br> <br> return_value["attribute"]["count"] = number of values for attribute<br> return_value["attribute"][0] = first value of the attribute<br> return_value["attribute"][i] = (i+1)th value of the attribute<br> </P ><P ></P ></DIV > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN43033" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. Show the list of attributes held for a particular directory entry </B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >// $ds is the link identifier for the directory // $sr is a valid search result from a prior call to // one of the ldap directory search calls $entry = ldap_first_entry($ds, $sr); $attrs = ldap_get_attributes($ds, $entry); echo $attrs["count"]." attributes held for this entry:<p>"; for ($i=0; $i<$attrs["count"]; $i++) echo $attrs[$i]."<br>";</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.ldap-first-attribute.html" ><B CLASS="function" >ldap_first_attribute()</B ></A > and <A HREF="function.ldap-next-attribute.html" ><B CLASS="function" >ldap_next_attribute()</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-free-result.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-get-dn.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >ldap_free_result</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_get_dn</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >