LDAP

In PHP 7.3, quite a few new improvements were made to ext/ldap, PHP’s extension for the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

We do not have an environment in which we could test these improvements and therefore cannot provide examples for how they are used. Instead, we can only list the improvements here:

The functions ldap_add_ext(), ldap_bind_ext(), ldap_delete_ext(), ldap_mod_add_ext(), ldap_mod_replace_ext(), ldap_mod_del_ext(), and ldap_rename_ext() were added and provide access to the result object to be able to parse it with ldap_parse_result(). This gives more detailed information than just “the operation failed” or “the operation was successful”.

The ldap_exop_refresh() was added for conveniently performing an extended refresh operation.

Full support for LDAP Controls was added to the LDAP querying functions as well as ldap_parse_result(). The serverctrls parameter was added to the ldap_add(), ldap_mod_replace(), ldap_mod_add(), ldap_mod_del(), ldap_rename(), ldap_compare(), ldap_delete(), ldap_modify_batch(), ldap_search(), ldap_list(), and ldap_read() functions for sending controls to the server. The out parameter was added to the ldap_parse_result() function for getting controls from the server.

The LDAP_OPT_SERVER_CONTROLS and LDAP_OPT_CLIENT_CONTROLS constants are now handled correctly by the ldap_get_option() and ldap_set_option() functions.