Using PHP and MS Active Directory....

[jenkinsp]

I have tried posting previously with not a lot of success, so I thought I would try reposting and making it a little clearer...

I am using PHP and LDAP to pull out information out of Microsoft Active Directory. This works well for most fields and I can get things like dates of when the account was changed and when it was created. BUT for some reason the "accountexpires" is stored as a different format to the others.

According to what I have read in other places, the format is
LARGE INT or INTEGER8 (Mabey these are the same?) which PHP doesnt seem to handle natively. It seems to be a function of C. From what I read it is a 64 bit integer which has to be converted down.

Once converted to a "Normal Interger" the actual number should come out as a standard UNIX date/time.

The raw number I get from AD is: 127093968000000000 when I run my LDAP query. The "accountexpires" in this case is 30 september 2003.

HELP!

[Weedpacket]

Don't recognise how 2003-9-30 comes out of that; I thought it might be something simple like nanoseconds since epoch, but that would put the date in early 1974, not late 2003.

But however it goes, you may be able to get such a number into a usable form using [man]unpack[/man]; just how depends on the format.