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Object oriented interface for searching and manipulating LDAP-entries

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License: LGPL License

Description

Net_LDAP is a clone of Perls Net::LDAP object interface to
directory servers. It does contain most of Net::LDAPs features
but has some own too.
With Net_LDAP you have:
* A simple object-oriented interface to connections, searches entries and filters.
* Support for tls and ldap v3.
* Simple modification, deletion and creation of ldap entries.
* Support for schema handling.

Net_LDAP layers itself on top of PHP's existing ldap extensions.

Documentation

Manual

Maintainers

• Tarjei Huse (tarjei) — lead, inactive
• Jan Wagner (jw) — lead, inactive
• Benedikt Hallinger (beni) — lead, active

Dependencies

Required

• PHP (>= 4.2)
• PEAR Installer (>= 1.5.0)

Releases

• 1.1.5 (stable, 2009-07-03)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL License

  * Ported the fix (RFC-1777) in connect() from Net_LDAP2 v2.0.3

• 1.1.4 (stable, 2009-04-23)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL License

  * Ported the connect() method from Net_LDAP2 since it fixes some connection issues

• 1.1.3 (stable, 2008-10-23)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL License

  * Fixed a little issue with repetive adding the same attribute value (backported from Net_LDAP2)
  * Fixed issue with repetitve adding or deleting values causing Net_LDAP to send the same change multiple times

• 1.1.2 (stable, 2008-06-04)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL License

  * Backportet a patch from Net_LDAP2. Schema->isBinary() did not checked attribute supertypes
  * Backported a patch for Schema->isBinary() bug if unknown attribute type is requested
  * Bugfix in filter class for approx matching

• 1.1.1 (stable, 2008-03-19)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL License

  This is just a bugfix release. Net_LDAP is superseeded by Net_LDAP2,
  please use Net_LDAP2 unless you are forced to use PHP4.
  * Fixed a problem with Net_LDAP_LDIF and files with DOS line endings

• 1.1.0 (stable, 2008-02-27)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL License

  * Fixed a little bug at cross directory move
  * Fixed a bug when deleting a subtree containing several subentries that failed if
  one called dnExists() prior calling delete()
  * Fixed some minor bugs at NeT_LDAP->move() and Net_LDAP->dnExists()
  * Added Net_LDAP tests
  * Changed API of Net_LDAP->copy() to only accept Net_LDAP_Entry objects, because with DNs
  Attribute values will be lost
  /!\ This is the last release of Net_LDAP supporting PHP4 /!\

• 1.1.0a2 (beta, 2008-01-21)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL License

  * Added parseLines() to Net_LDAP_LDIF for more convinience
  * Added some handy methods to Net_LDAP_Entry
  * Enhanced tests

• 1.1.0a1 (beta, 2008-01-14)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL License

  * Added LDIF reading and writing support
  * Fixed minor issues of 1.0.0 release

• 1.0.0 (stable, 2007-10-29)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL License

  After more than four years of development, we are very proud to announce the
  ~ FIRST STABLE Net_LDAP RELEASE 1.0.0 ~
  Net_LDAP ist tested now and should be stable enough for production use.
  The API is finished so far, no changes should be neccessary in the future.

  Changes to Release candidate 4:
  - Implemented PHPUnit tests
  - Fixed some minor bugs of RC4 (including the schema loading warning-generation)
  - Fixed several bugs in Net_LDAP_Util
  - Improved Net_LDAP_Filter and Net_LDAP_Util error handling and code cleanness
  - Completely implemented Net_LDAP_Filter perl interface
  - Improved several doc comments and fixed some spelling errors

• 1.0.0RC4 (beta, 2007-09-18)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL License

  - Fixed some minor bugs of RC3
  - Reintroduced $ldap parameter for
  $entry-update(), but it is not prefferred to use this way.
  The Parameter is there for perl interface compatibility

• 1.0.0RC3 (beta, 2007-07-24)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL License

  Fixed a bug with dnExists() that was caused mainly by bad behavior of Net_LDAP_UTIL::ldap_explode_dn().
  Fixed a bug with call time pass-by-reference if calling $entry->update(); however this inflicted a API change:
  The parameter $ldap is not available anymore, you need to use $entry->setLDAP() prior update now if you want to change the LDAP
  object. This brought us a more logical API now, since Entry operations should be performed by the Net_LDAP object.

• 1.0.0RC2 (beta, 2007-06-28)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL License

  Net_LDAP->dnExists() uses the Util class now, which makes it safer.
  A new move() method is available from Net_LDAP.
  Please note, that the copy() method was removed from the Net_LDAP_Entry class since
  people would expect attribute moving because of the overall API of Net_LDAP.
  Instead use the more failsafer copy() from Net_LDAP.

• 1.0.0RC1 (beta, 2007-06-20)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL License

  Again some small Bugfixes, most notably a bug within $ldap->modify() that occured when using the
  combined 'changes' array.
  Besides that, $search->popEntry() and the corresponding alias pop_entry() has been implemented.
  Net_LDAP_Util::unescape_filter_value() is available too now and Net_LDAP_Util::escape_filter_value()
  can handle ASCII chars smaller than 32. Above that, Net_LDAP_Util::canonical_dn() has been fully implemented.
  A new method createFresh() was added to Net_LDAP_Entry, so creation of initial entries is more
  standardized and clearer.
  A new example is available, describing the $ldap->modify() method.
  The add_entry.php example was updated, it shows the use of Net_LDAP_Entry::createFresh().
  $ldap->add() links unlinked entries now to the connection used for the add.
  Some new additional utility functions are available in Net_LDAP_Util to assist you in handling attributes and dns.
  The LDAP-Rename command now uses this functions to deal with DN escaping issues.
  Please note that ldap_explode_dn_escaped() is not available from Net_LDAP_Util anymore; it got superseeded by Net_LDAP_Util::ldap_explode_dn().

• 0.7.3 (beta, 2007-06-12)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL License

  This release introduces some example files showing you in detail how to work with Net_LDAP.
  Additionally, a bug at recursive deletion of an entry is fixed and the Net_LDAP_Filter
  class is slightly optimized.

• 0.7.2 (beta, 2007-05-07)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL License

  This release features some internal code movements to be more compatible to PERL::Net_LDAP.
  The movements include:
  * Removed UTF8 en-/decoding stuff from Net_LDAP_Utils class since this was moved to Net_LDAP class in 0.6.6
  * Moved Filter encoding from Net_LDAP_Filter to Net_LDAP_Util
  * Moved ldap_explode_dn_escaped() from Net_LDAP_Entry to Net_LDAP_Util
  * Added perls functions from Net_LDAP::Util to our Util class, but they still need some work
  Please note that ldap_explode_dn_escaped() is not available from Net_LDAP_Entry anymore.

  Additionally some new functionality has been introduced:
  * You can now apply regular expressions directly to a entrys attributes
  and don't need to fetch the attribute values manually.
  * Net_LDAP_Schema can check if a attributes syntax is binary

  The following bugs have been resolved:
  * Connections to LDAP servers that forbid anonymous binds are possible again
  * The JPEG attribute is now properly returned as binary value instead of string
  * If the array describing selected attributes in searches didn't contain consecutive keys, there was a problem sometimes
  * Some PHP5 return issues

• 0.7.1 (beta, 2007-02-23)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL License

  This is not just a bugfix release of 0.7.0 but also introduces some internal optimisations:
  - Fixed a connection bug whith LDAP V3 only servers
  - clearer sanitizing of the host config parameter

• 0.7.0 (beta, 2007-02-05)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL License

  This long awaited release of Net_LDAP features more stability and new functionality.
  The main changes are:
  - Rewrite of much of the code (including some api changes!)
  - LOTS of fixed bugs!
  - New class for easy filter handling (Net_LDAP_Filter)
  - Sorting support for searchresults (including multivalued sorting!)
  - Searched Entries can now be fetched as_struct() (array)!
  - Some memory optimizations

  Please note also that Net_LDAPs configuration changed slightly. Please see $_config in LDAP.php for the new parameters.

• 0.6.6 (beta, 2005-03-01)
• 0.6.5 (beta, 2004-03-10)
• 0.6.4 (beta, 2004-02-07)
• 0.6.3 (beta, 2003-11-13)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL License

  It seems that 0.6.2 was out too fast. So this is mainly a bugfix release:
  - Removed remaining Net_LDAP::UTF8Encode and Net_LDAP::UTF8Decode calls in Net_LDAP_Entry,
  which stopped attributes() and get_entry() from working
  - The UTF8 functions somehow got outside the Net_LDAP class ... FIXED.
  - The usuage example of the last release was wrong. We decided to move UTF8 handling into Net_LDAP.
  Handling should be done this way:

  $attr = $ldap-utf8Encode($attr);
  $entry-modify($attr);
  $attr = $ldap-utf8Decode( $entry-attributes() );
  - This means Net_LDAP_Util is useless right now, but will be extended in the future.
  - Jan did a complete overhaul of the phpdoc stuff. Everything seems to be fine now with phpDocumentor.

• 0.6.2 (beta, 2003-11-11)
• 0.5 (beta, 2003-10-11)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL License

  Jan Wagner Contributed a new RootDSE object and a Schema object and some fixes to the Net_LDAP::search() method
  The new Net_ldap_entry::modify() method seems to work very nice now.

• 0.4 (beta, 2003-10-01)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL License

  Many more bugfixes. Jan Wagner fixed the shift_entry function.
  Also a new Net_LDAP_Entry::modify function has been added that goes far making a simple way to modify entries.

• 0.3 (beta, 2003-09-21)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL License

  More bug squashing! Much better errorhandling in the -search() function.
  Also, all errors that create a Pear_error now includes the errornumber if
  appropriate (i.e. it was an ldap generated error).

• 0.2 (beta, 2003-08-23)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL License

  Fixed a lot of bugs that jumped in during the pearification process

• 0.1 (beta, 2003-08-12)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL License

  Initial release

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