Pulling information from LDAP Array

[whobutsb]

Hi All,
I have a question about arrays and LDAP. I recently found a wonderful class called adLDAP, and I have configured it to connect to our AD server and i'm pulling lots of good information.

The problem I'm having now is trying to pull that information from the array it outputs and use the information as variables. Lets say I want to pull the email for the user and set it as a variable. I know this is a relatively easy array function but I'm just unsure how to do it.

Here is the Array that is being produced:

Array ( [count] => 1 [0] => Array ( [memberof] => Array ( [count] => 5 [0] => CN=NHC Users,CN=Users,DC=newportharbor,DC=com [1] => CN=Newport Harbor Corporation,CN=Users,DC=newportharbor,DC=com [2] => CN=Entire Company,CN=Users,DC=newportharbor,DC=com [3] => CN=Marketing,CN=Users,DC=newportharbor,DC=com [4] => CN=Domain Users,CN=Users,DC=newportharbor,DC=com ) [0] => memberof [displayname] => Array ( [count] => 1 [0] => NHC - Marketing Intern ) [1] => displayname [mail] => Array ( [count] => 1 [0] => [e-mail] ) [2] => mail [primarygroupid] => Array ( [count] => 1 [0] => 513 ) [3] => primarygroupid [samaccountname] => Array ( [count] => 1 [0] => market ) [4] => samaccountname [count] => 5 [dn] => CN=NHC - Marketing Intern,OU=Marketing,OU=NHC,DC=newportharbor,DC=com ) )

I'm using the print_r to produce this result. Thanks for all your help!!!

[WeAnswer_IT]

Let's say you executed print_r($ldap_array) to give us that output you showed above. You can access the contents of the array like this:

<?php
foreach($ldap_array[0]['memberof'] as $key => $value)
{
    if($key == 'count')
    {
        echo "Total: ".$value."<br />";
        //do whatever
    }
    else
    {
        echo "#".$key.": ".$value."<br />";
    }
}

You need to check out the extract() function of PHP.

Example from the manual:

<?php
$var_array = array("color" => "blue",
                   "size"  => "medium",
                   "shape" => "sphere");
extract($var_array);

echo "$color, $size, $shape, $size\n";

?>

would output...

blue, large, sphere, medium

You can do some slightly more advanced stuff than that, so that extract() doesn't overwrite any variables you have already defined, but currently I'll leave you with that unless you run into problems.

Unfortunately I don't know much about LDAP or how you are generating this array or what the possible contents of the array could be, so I can't be more helpful than that without more information.

NOTE: An e-mail address is listed in the code you posted above, and spiders can easily harvest it and start spamming it! You should edit your post and remove it!