Source for file LDIF.php
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require_once 'Net/LDAP.php';
require_once 'Net/LDAP/Entry.php';
require_once 'Net/LDAP/Util.php';
* LDIF capabilitys for Net_LDAP, closely taken from PERLs Net::LDAP
* It provides a means to convert between Net_LDAP_Entry objects and LDAP entries
* represented in LDIF format files. Reading and writing are supported and may
* manipulate single entries or lists of entries.
* // Read and parse an ldif-file into Net_LDAP_Entry objects
* // and print out the DNs. Store the entries for later use.
* require 'Net/LDAP/LDIF.php';
* $ldif = new Net_LDAP_LDIF('test.ldif', 'r', $options);
* $entry = $ldif->read_entry();
* echo " done building entry: $dn\n";
* array_push($entries, $entry);
* } while (!$ldif->eof());
* // write those entries to another file
* $ldif = new Net_LDAP_LDIF('test.out.ldif', 'w', $options);
* $ldif->write_entry($entries);
* @author Benedikt Hallinger <beni@php.net>
* @license http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html LGPL
* @version CVS: $Id: LDIF.php,v 1.32 2008/03/05 07:00:49 beni Exp $
* @link http://pear.php.net/package/Net_LDAP/
* @see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2849.txt
* @todo Error handling should be PEARified
* @todo LDAPv3 controls are not implemented yet
* Filehandle for read/write
* Says, if we opened the filehandle ourselves
* Linecounter for input file handle
* counter for processed entries
* Tells, if the LDIF version string was already written
var $_version_written = false;
* Cache for lines that have build the current entry
var $_lines_cur = array ();
* Cache for lines that will build the next entry
var $_lines_next = array ();
* Open LDIF file for reading or for writing
* Open the file read-only. FILE may be the name of a file
* or an already open filehandle.
* If the file doesn't exist, it will be created if in write mode.
* new (FILE, MODE, OPTIONS):
* Open the file with the given MODE (see PHPs fopen()), eg "w" or "a".
* FILE may be the name of a file or an already open filehandle.
* PERLs Net_LDAP "FILE|" mode does not work curently.
* OPTIONS is an associative array and may contain:
* encode => 'none' | 'canonical' | 'base64'
* Some DN values in LDIF cannot be written verbatim and have to be encoded in some way:
* 'canonical' See "canonical_dn()" in Net::LDAP::Util.
* 'base64' Use base64. (default, this differs from the Perl interface.
* The perl default is "none"!)
* onerror => 'die' | 'warn' | undef
* Specify what happens when an error is detected.
* 'die' Net_LDAP_LDIF will croak with an appropriate message.
* 'warn' Net_LDAP_LDIF will warn (echo) with an appropriate message.
* undef Net_LDAP_LDIF will not warn (default), use error().
* Write entry changes to the LDIF file instead of the entries itself. I.e. write LDAP
* operations acting on the entries to the file instead of the entries contents.
* This writes the changes usually carried out by an update() to the LDIF file.
* Convert attribute names to lowercase when writing.
* Sort attribute names when writing entries according to the rule:
* objectclass first then all other attributes alphabetically sorted by attribute name
* Set the LDIF version to write to the resulting LDIF file.
* According to RFC 2849 currently the only legal value for this option is 1.
* When this option is set Net_LDAP_LDIF tries to adhere more strictly to
* the LDIF specification in RFC2489 in a few places.
* The default is undef meaning no version information is written to the LDIF file.
* Number of columns where output line wrapping shall occur.
* Default is 78. Setting it to 40 or lower inhibits wrapping.
* [NOT IMPLEMENTED] raw => REGEX
* Use REGEX to denote the names of attributes that are to be
* considered binary in search results if writing entries.
* Example: raw => "/(?i:^jpegPhoto|;binary)/i"
* @param string|ressource$file Filename or filehandle
* @param string $mode Mode to open filename
* @param array $options Options like described above
$this->PEAR ('Net_LDAP_Error'); // default error class
// todo: maybe implement further checks on possible values
foreach ($options as $option => $value) {
$this->_dropError ('Net_LDAP_LDIF error: option '. $option. ' not known!');
$this->version($this->_options['version']);
$this->_dropError ('Net_LDAP_LDIF error: file mode '. $mode. ' not supported!');
// TODO: checks on mode possible?
$imode = substr($this->_mode, 0 , 1 );
$this->_dropError ('Unable to open '. $file. ' for read: file not found');
$this->_dropError ('Unable to open '. $file. ' for read: permission denied');
if (($imode == 'w' || $imode == 'a')) {
$this->_dropError ('Unable to open '. $file. ' for write: permission denied');
$this->_dropError ('Unable to create '. $file. ' for write: permission denied');
$this->_FH = @fopen($file, $this->_mode);
if (false === $this->_FH) {
// Fallback; should never be reached if tests above are good enough!
$this->_dropError ('Net_LDAP_LDIF error: Could not open file '. $file);
$this->_FH_opened = true;
* Read one entry from the file and return it as a Net::LDAP::Entry object.
// read fresh lines, set them as current lines and create the entry
$this->_lines_cur = $attrs;
* Returns true when the end of the file is reached.
* Write the entry or entries to the LDIF file.
* If you want to build an LDIF file containing several entries AND
* you want to call write_entry() several times, you must open the filehandle
* in append mode ("a"), otherwise you will always get the last entry only.
* @param Net_LDAP_Entry|array$entries Entry or array of entries
* @todo implement operations on whole entries (adding a whole entry)
$entries = array ($entries);
foreach ($entries as $entry) {
if (!is_a($entry, 'Net_LDAP_Entry')) {
$this->_dropError ('Net_LDAP_LDIF error: entry '. $this->_entrynum. ' is not an Net_LDAP_Entry object');
if ($this->_options['change']) {
// fetch change information from entry
$entry_attrs_changes = $entry->getChanges ();
$num_of_changes = count($entry_attrs_changes['add'])
+ count($entry_attrs_changes['replace'])
+ count($entry_attrs_changes['delete']);
$is_changed = ($num_of_changes > 0 || $entry->willBeDeleted () || $entry->willBeMoved ());
// write version if not done yet
// also write DN of entry
if (!$this->_version_written) {
$this->_writeDN ($entry->currentDN ());
// TODO: consider DN add!
if ($entry->willBeDeleted ()) {
$this->_writeLine ("changetype: delete".PHP_EOL );
} elseif ($entry->willBeMoved ()) {
$this->_writeLine ("changetype: modrdn".PHP_EOL );
$this->_writeLine ("newrdn: ". $rdn.PHP_EOL );
$this->_writeLine ("deleteoldrdn: 1".PHP_EOL );
if ($parent !== $oldparent) {
$this->_writeLine ("newsuperior: ". $parent.PHP_EOL );
// TODO: What if the entry has attribute changes as well?
// I think we should check for that and make a dummy
// entry with the changes that is written to the LDIF file
} elseif ($num_of_changes > 0 ) {
// write attribute change data
$this->_writeLine ("changetype: modify".PHP_EOL );
foreach ($entry_attrs_changes as $changetype => $entry_attrs) {
foreach ($entry_attrs as $attr_name => $attr_values) {
$this->_writeLine (" $changetype: $attr_name".PHP_EOL );
if ($attr_values !== null ) $this->_writeAttribute ($attr_name, $attr_values, $changetype);
$this->_writeLine ("-".PHP_EOL );
// finish this entrys data if we had changes
// fetch attributes for further processing
$entry_attrs = $entry->getValues ();
// sort and put objectclass-attrs to first position
if ($this->_options['sort']) {
$oc = $entry_attrs['objectclass'];
unset ($entry_attrs['objectclass']);
$entry_attrs = array_merge(array ('objectclass' => $oc), $entry_attrs);
if (!$this->_version_written) {
$this->_writeDN ($entry->dn ());
foreach ($entry_attrs as $attr_name => $attr_values) {
$this->_writeAttribute ($attr_name, $attr_values);
* If the object's version is defined, this method allows to explicitely write the version before an entry is written.
* If not called explicitely, it gets called automatically when writing the first entry.
$this->_version_written = true;
return $this->_writeLine ('version: '. $this->version().PHP_EOL , 'Net_LDAP_LDIF error: unable to write version');
* Get or set LDIF version
* If called without arguments it returns the version of the LDIF file or undef if no version has been set.
* If called with an argument it sets the LDIF version to VERSION.
* According to RFC 2849 currently the only legal value for VERSION is 1.
* @param int $version (optional) LDIF version to set
$this->_dropError ('Net_LDAP_LDIF error: illegal LDIF version set');
$this->_version = $version;
* Returns the file handle the Net_LDAP_LDIF object reads from or writes to.
* You can, for example, use this to fetch the content of the LDIF file yourself
$this->_dropError ('Net_LDAP_LDIF error: invalid file resource');
* This method signals that the LDIF object is no longer needed.
* You can use this to free up some memory and close the file handle.
* The file handle is only closed, if it was opened from Net_LDAP_LDIF.
// close FH if we opened it
* Returns last error message if error was found.
* echo "Error: ".$ldif->error()." at input line: ".$ldif->error_lines();
* @param boolean $as_string If set to true, only the message is returned
* @return false|Net_LDAP_Error
function error($as_string = false )
return ($as_string)? $this->_error['error']->getMessage () : $this->_error['error'];
* Returns lines that resulted in error.
* Perl returns an array of faulty lines in list context,
* but we always just return an int because of PHPs language.
return $this->_error['line'];
* Returns the current Net::LDAP::Entry object.
* @return Net_LDAP_Entry|false
* Parse LDIF lines of one entry into an Net_LDAP_Entry object
* @param array $lines LDIF lines for one entry
* @return Net_LDAP_Entry|falseNet_LDAP_Entry object for those lines
* @todo what about file inclusions and urls? "jpegphoto:< file:///usr/local/directory/photos/fiona.jpg"
// parse lines into an array of attributes and build the entry
foreach ($lines as $line) {
if (preg_match('/^(\w+)(:|::|:<)\s(.+)$/', $line, $matches)) {
$attributes[$attr][] = $data;
} elseif ($delim == '::') {
} elseif ($delim == ':<') {
// TODO: Is this the job of the LDAP-client or the server?
$this->_dropError ('File inclusions are currently not supported');
//$attributes[$attr][] = ...;
// since the pattern above, the delimeter cannot be something else.
$this->_dropError ('Net_LDAP_LDIF parsing error: invalid syntax at parsing entry line: '. $line);
$dn = $attributes[$attr][0 ]; // save possibly decoded DN
unset ($attributes[$attr]); // remove wrongly added "dn: " attribute
// line not in "attr: value" format -> ignore
// maybe we should rise an error here, but this should be covered by
// next_lines() already. A problem arises, if users try to feed data of
// several entries to this method - the resulting entry will
// get wrong attributes. However, this is already mentioned in the
// methods documentation above.
$this->_dropError ('Net_LDAP_LDIF parsing error: unable to detect DN for entry');
* Returns the lines that generated the current Net::LDAP::Entry object.
* Note that this returns an empty array if no lines have been read so far.
* @return array Array of lines
return $this->_lines_cur;
* Returns the lines that will generate the next Net::LDAP::Entry object.
* If you set $force to TRUE then you can iterate over the lines that build
* up entries manually. Otherwise, iterating is done using {@link read_entry()}.
* Force will move the file pointer forward, thus returning the next entries lines.
* Wrapped lines will be unwrapped. Comments are stripped.
* @param boolean $force Set this to true if you want to iterate over the lines manually
// if we already have those lines, just return them, otherwise read
if (count($this->_lines_next) == 0 || $force) {
$this->_lines_next = array (); // empty in case something was left (if used $force)
$commentmode = false; // if we are in an comment, for wrapping purposes
$datalines_read = 0; // how many lines with data we have read
while (!$entry_done && !$this->eof()) {
// Read line. Remove line endings, we want only data;
// this is okay since ending spaces should be encoded
// error only, if EOF not reached after fgets() call
$this->_dropError ('Net_LDAP_LDIF error: error reading from file at input line '. $this->_input_line, $this->_input_line);
// Entry is finished if we have an empty line after we had data
// Look ahead if the next EOF is nearby. Comments and empty
// lines at the file end may cause problems otherwise
$current_pos = ftell($fh);
// only empty lines or comments, continue to seek
// TODO: Known bug: Wrappings for comments are okay but are treaten as
// error, since we do not honor comment mode here.
// This should be a very theoretically case, however
// i am willing to fix this if really necessary.
$current_pos = ftell($fh);
// Data found if non emtpy line and not a comment!!
// Rewind to position prior last read and stop lookahead
fseek($fh, $current_pos);
// now we have either the file pointer at the beginning of
// a new data position or at the end of file causing feof() to return true
if (preg_match('/^version:\s(.+)$/', $data, $match)) {
// version statement, set version
// normal attribute: add line
$this->_lines_next[] = trim($data);
} elseif (preg_match('/^\s(.+)$/', $data, $matches)) {
// wrapped data: unwrap if not in comment mode
if ($datalines_read == 0 ) {
// first line of entry: wrapped data is illegal
$this->_dropError ('Net_LDAP_LDIF error: illegal wrapping at input line '. $this->_input_line, $this->_input_line);
$last = $last. trim($matches[1 ]);
$this->_lines_next[] = $last;
// empty line but we had no data for this
// entry, so just ignore this line
$this->_dropError ('Net_LDAP_LDIF error: invalid syntax at input line '. $this->_input_line, $this->_input_line);
return $this->_lines_next;
* Convert an attribute and value to LDIF string representation
* It honors correct encoding of values according to RFC 2849.
* Line wrapping will occur at the configured maximum but only if
* the value is greater than 40 chars.
* @param string $attr_name Name of the attribute
* @param string $attr_value Value of the attribute
* @return string LDIF string for that attribute and value
function _convertAttribute ($attr_name, $attr_value)
// Handle empty attribute or process
if (strlen($attr_value) == 0 ) {
// ASCII-chars that are NOT safe for the
// start and for being inside the value.
// These are the int values of those chars.
$unsafe_init = array (0 , 10 , 13 , 32 , 58 , 60 );
$unsafe = array (0 , 10 , 13 );
// Test for illegal init char
if ($init_ord >= 127 || in_array($init_ord, $unsafe_init)) {
// Test for illegal content char
for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($attr_value); $i++ ) {
$char = substr($attr_value, $i, 1 );
if (ord($char) >= 127 || in_array($init_ord, $unsafe)) {
if (substr($attr_value, -1 ) == ' ') {
// If converting is needed, do it
if ($base64 && !($this->_options['raw'] && preg_match($this->_options['raw'], $attr_name))) {
// Lowercase attr names if requested
if ($this->_options['lowercase']) $attr_name = strtolower($attr_name);
if ($this->_options['wrap'] > 40 && strlen($attr_value) > $this->_options['wrap']) {
$attr_value = wordwrap($attr_value, $this->_options['wrap'], PHP_EOL. " ", true );
return $attr_name. ': '. $attr_value;
* Convert an entries DN to LDIF string representation
* It honors correct encoding of values according to RFC 2849.
* @param string $dn UTF8-Encoded DN
* @return string LDIF string for that DN
* @todo I am not sure, if the UTF8 stuff is correctly handled right now
// ASCII-chars that are NOT safe for the
// start and for being inside the dn.
// These are the int values of those chars.
$unsafe_init = array (0 , 10 , 13 , 32 , 58 , 60 );
$unsafe = array (0 , 10 , 13 );
// Test for illegal init char
if ($init_ord >= 127 || in_array($init_ord, $unsafe_init)) {
// Test for illegal content char
for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($dn); $i++ ) {
if (ord($char) >= 127 || in_array($init_ord, $unsafe)) {
// if converting is needed, do it
* Writes an attribute to the filehandle
* @param string $attr_name Name of the attribute
* @param string|array$attr_values Single attribute value or array with attribute values
function _writeAttribute ($attr_name, $attr_values)
// write out attribute content
$attr_values = array ($attr_values);
foreach ($attr_values as $attr_val) {
$line = $this->_convertAttribute ($attr_name, $attr_val).PHP_EOL;
$this->_writeLine ($line, 'Net_LDAP_LDIF error: unable to write attribute '. $attr_name. ' of entry '. $this->_entrynum);
* Writes a DN to the filehandle
* @param string $dn DN to write
if ($this->_options['encode'] == 'base64') {
$dn = $this->_convertDN ($dn).PHP_EOL;
} elseif ($this->_options['encode'] == 'canonical') {
$this->_writeLine ($dn, 'Net_LDAP_LDIF error: unable to write DN of entry '. $this->_entrynum);
$this->_writeLine (PHP_EOL , 'Net_LDAP_LDIF error: unable to close entry '. $this->_entrynum);
* Just write an arbitary line to the filehandle
* @param string $line Content to write
* @param string $error If error occurs, drop this message
function _writeLine ($line, $error = 'Net_LDAP_LDIF error: unable to write to filehandle')
$this->_dropError ($error);
* Optionally raises an error and pushes the error on the error cache
* @param string $msg Errortext
* @param int $line Line in the LDIF that caused the error
function _dropError ($msg, $line = null )
if ($line !== null ) $this->_error['line'] = $line;
if ($this->_options['onerror'] == 'die') {
} elseif ($this->_options['onerror'] == 'warn') {
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