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I had a lot of issues with decoding errors using ldap_get_values_len() and found a of unanswered calls for help on a lot of forums.
The error message is - Warning: ldap_get_values(): Cannot get the value(s) of attribute Decoding error in xxx.php.
It appears that this error seems to cover a multitude sins including simple typos in the attribute name.
After using PHP to list the attributes of a particular record I noticed that the attribute userCertificate wasn't listed simply as userCertificate but userCertificate;binary instead. I wrote this into my code and all was fixed.
So my code looks as follows.
<?php
if (!$val = @ldap_get_values_len($con, $entry, "$attribute;binary"))
die ('Error retrieving value (' . ldap_error($con) . ')');
?>
I hope this saves someone the pain I went through trawling Google for an answer.
ldap_get_values_len
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
ldap_get_values_len — Get all binary values from a result entry
Descrierea
array ldap_get_values_len
( resource
$link_identifier
, resource $result_entry_identifier
, string $attribute
)Reads all the values of the attribute in the entry in the result.
This function is used exactly like ldap_get_values() except that it handles binary data and not string data.
Parametri
-
link_identifier -
An LDAP link identifier, returned by ldap_connect().
-
result_entry_identifier -
-
attribute -
Valorile întoarse
Returns an array of values for the attribute on success and FALSE on
error. Individual values are accessed by integer index in the array. The
first index is 0. The number of values can be found by indexing "count"
in the resultant array.
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User Contributed Notes
ldap_get_values_len
Stav
21-Apr-2011 05:38
jhgustafsson at gmail dot com
02-Jun-2009 03:07
Tried a couple of different ways to do this but this seems to work best:
<?php
$info = ldap_first_entry($ds,$sr);
// get it binary-safe.
$bin_guid = ldap_get_values_len($ds,$info,"objectguid");
// convert to hex, bin2hex failed here for me. Unpack() seems to work though.
$hex_guid = unpack("H*hex", $bin_guid[0]);
?>
alexey_baranov at inbox dot ru
02-Apr-2009 04:26
no more need to use ldap_get_values_len (). ldap_get_attributes() works well now.
<?php
$attrs = ldap_get_attributes($this->cid, $this->re);
$hex_Sid= bin2hex($attrs['objectSid'][0]); //returns 010500000000000515000000c94d7d363d787b17e77b80109d060000
$hex_GUID= bin2hex($attrs['objectGUID'][0]); //returns 710234bbc2abc148ade8c1f9b4567b24
?>
etienne at i-james dot com
23-Aug-2007 02:40
In order to set directory/file permissions with smbcacls, you'll need to get the objectSid and objectGuid, convert them with the functions described in the other post of this manual and concat them like this :
$user='S-' . $strObjectSid . '-' . $strObjectGuid
derek dot ethier at gmail dot com
07-Mar-2007 11:25
One more function to add that complements the bin_to_str_guid function I posted below:
// This function will convert a string GUID value into a HEX value to search AD.
function str_to_hex_guid($str_guid) {
$str_guid = str_replace('-', '', $str_guid);
$octet_str = substr($str_guid, 6, 2);
$octet_str .= substr($str_guid, 4, 2);
$octet_str .= substr($str_guid, 2, 2);
$octet_str .= substr($str_guid, 0, 2);
$octet_str .= substr($str_guid, 10, 2);
$octet_str .= substr($str_guid, 8, 2);
$octet_str .= substr($str_guid, 14, 2);
$octet_str .= substr($str_guid, 12, 2);
$octet_str .= substr($str_guid, 16, strlen($str_guid));
return $octet_str;
}
If you want to convert the string GUID back to the HEX format (required if you want to search AD based on the GUID string, make sure you escape the HEX string with double backslashes when searching -- ie. \\AE\\0F\\88...).
derek dot ethier at gmail dot com
12-Feb-2007 07:49
To elaborate on rcrow's post, if you want to convert the objectSID value to a usable string (from Active Directory) the following function will do the trick (this was borrowed from another section of the manual, just thought I'd add it here):
// Returns the textual SID
function bin_to_str_sid($binsid) {
$hex_sid = bin2hex($binsid);
$rev = hexdec(substr($hex_sid, 0, 2));
$subcount = hexdec(substr($hex_sid, 2, 2));
$auth = hexdec(substr($hex_sid, 4, 12));
$result = "$rev-$auth";
for ($x=0;$x < $subcount; $x++) {
$subauth[$x] =
hexdec($this->little_endian(substr($hex_sid, 16 + ($x * 8), 8)));
$result .= "-" . $subauth[$x];
}
// Cheat by tacking on the S-
return 'S-' . $result;
}
// Converts a little-endian hex-number to one, that 'hexdec' can convert
function little_endian($hex) {
for ($x = strlen($hex) - 2; $x >= 0; $x = $x - 2) {
$result .= substr($hex, $x, 2);
}
return $result;
}
This function is not related to the ldap_get_values_len function but is still helpful if you want to convert the objectGUID binary value to a string format (converted from some vbscript provided by Richard Mueller):
// This function will convert a binary value guid into a valid string.
function bin_to_str_guid($object_guid) {
$hex_guid = bin2hex($object_guid);
$hex_guid_to_guid_str = '';
for($k = 1; $k <= 4; ++$k) {
$hex_guid_to_guid_str .= substr($hex_guid, 8 - 2 * $k, 2);
}
$hex_guid_to_guid_str .= '-';
for($k = 1; $k <= 2; ++$k) {
$hex_guid_to_guid_str .= substr($hex_guid, 12 - 2 * $k, 2);
}
$hex_guid_to_guid_str .= '-';
for($k = 1; $k <= 2; ++$k) {
$hex_guid_to_guid_str .= substr($hex_guid, 16 - 2 * $k, 2);
}
$hex_guid_to_guid_str .= '-' . substr($hex_guid, 16, 4);
$hex_guid_to_guid_str .= '-' . substr($hex_guid, 20);
return strtoupper($hex_guid_to_guid_str);
}
Here's an example on how to use both:
$filter="samaccountname=".$username;
$fields=array("objectguid","objectsid");
//establish the connection and specify the base_dn first. there are a lot of examples in the manual for this
$sr=ldap_search($this->_conn,$this->_base_dn,$filter,$fields);
$entries = ldap_get_entries($this->_conn, $sr);
if (in_array("objectguid", $fields)) {
$entries[0]["objectguid"][0]=
$this->bin_to_str_guid($entries[0]["objectguid"][0]);
}
if (in_array("objectsid", $fields)) {
$entry = ldap_first_entry($this->_conn, $sr);
$objectsid_binary = ldap_get_values_len($this->_conn, $entry, "objectsid");
$entries[0]["objectsid"][0] = $this->bin_to_str_sid($objectsid_binary[0]);
}
Hope this helps someone!
rcrow at NOSPAM dot laptv dot com
29-Apr-2004 05:06
If you are trying to access BINARY DATA, such as ObjectSID within LDAP, you must first get an individual entry, as stated under ldap_get_values() function -- "This call needs a result_entry_identifier, so needs to be preceded by one of the ldap search calls and one of the calls to get an individual entry."
The following code snippet will get the LDAP objectSID for a specific user.
<?php
/* Get the binary objectsid entry */
/* Be sure that you have included the binary field in your ldap_search. */
$criteria = "samaccountname=$ldapUser";
$justthese = array("memberOf", "objectsid");
$ldapSearchResult = ldap_search($ldapConnectionResult, $ldapBase, $criteria, $justthese);
if (ldap_count_entries($ldapConnectionResult, $ldapSearchResult)){
$ldapResults = ldap_get_entries($ldapConnectionResult, $ldapSearchResult);
$entry = ldap_first_entry($ldapConnectionResult, $ldapSearchResult);
$ldapBinary = ldap_get_values_len ($ldapConnectionResult, $entry, "objectsid");
/* your code here */
}
?>
You then can use something like bin2hex to put the data in a more usable form.