Michael, thanks for your suggestion. I read the RFC and it seemed to say that I
just need to escape the parenthesis with a backslash. I implemented this in
this section of my program:
// insert user in ldap
/*** add PeopleID ***/
$info=array();
$info['ccpactive']='T';
$info['ccpchecked']='T';
$info['ccpconfirmation']=generate_id();//generate randomly
$info['ccpdepartmentid']=$entry['DepartmentID'];
$info['ccpdivisionid']=$entry['DivisionID'];
$info['ccpstatustype']=$entry['Status_Typ'];
$info['ccpworkstatus']=$entry['Status'];
$info['cn']=$entry['FirstName']." ".$entry['LastName'];
$info['sn']=$entry['LastName'];
$info['uid']=$entry['Login'];
$info['objectclass']='ccpperson';
$info['mail']=$entry['Email'];
// generate password here
$password=generate_password();
$info['userpassword']='{MD5}'.base64_encode(md5($password, true));
$local_dn='cn='.$info['cn'].",".$rdn;
echo '$local_dn is ' . $local_dn . "\n";
// do the actual insertion
if (!ldap_add($connection,$local_dn,$info)) #This is line 141
{
echo "Failed to add user: ".$info['uid']."\n";
}else
{
And get this error message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/www/centernet/htdocs/ldap_auth$ php conversion.php
$local_dn is cn=E. Kevin \(Kev\) Zembower,ou=ccpperson,dc=jhuccp,dc=org
Warning: ldap_add(): Add: Invalid DN syntax in
/var/www/centernet/htdocs/ldap_auth/conversion.php on line 141
Failed to add user: kzembowe
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/www/centernet/htdocs/ldap_auth$
The local echo of $local_dn seems to be fine and what I expected. Can anyone
give me any more advice on how to transform this into an acceptable DN?
Thanks for your suggestions and advice.
-Kevin
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Ströder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 1:34 PM
To: Zembower, Kevin
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ldap] Newbie: best method for using special characters?
Zembower, Kevin wrote:
> I'm trying to modify a PHP program written by someone else so that it
> correctly inserts LDAP records containing special characters in
> distinguished names.
Read about special chars for DNs in RFC 4514.
Ciao, Michael.
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