<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >yp_match</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="YP/NIS Functions" HREF="ref.nis.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="yp_master" HREF="function.yp-master.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="yp_next" HREF="function.yp-next.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.yp-master.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.yp-next.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.yp-match" ></A >yp_match</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN98474" ></A ><P > (PHP 3>= 3.0.7, PHP 4 )</P >yp_match -- Returns the matched line</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN98477" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >yp_match</B > ( string domain, string map, string key)<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >yp_match()</B > returns the value associated with the passed key out of the specified map or <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT >. This key must be exact.</P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN98495" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. Example for NIS match</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php $entry = yp_match ($domain, "passwd.byname", "joe"); echo "Matched entry is: " . $entry; ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > In this case this could be: joe:##joe:11111:100:Joe User:/home/j/joe:/usr/local/bin/bash </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.yp-get-default-domain.html" ><B CLASS="function" >yp-get-default-domain()</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.yp-master.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.yp-next.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >yp_master</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.nis.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >yp_next</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >