Re[2]: Prob's with saving special Chars into LDAP under PHP

[Felix Meulenkamp <kdt-meulenkamp@kdt.de>]

Guten Tag Herr Venaas,

Dienstag, 12. Juni 2001, 10:56:11, schrieben sie:

SV> On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:43:28AM +0200, Felix Meulenkamp wrote:
>> My Prob... I'm adding ldap-entrys utf8-encoded to the db, but i have
>> probs to add them to utf8-encoded DNs like:
>> cn=Mike Müller, o=My Org, c=de
>> But after saving, it looks like:
>> cn=Mike M?ller, ...
>> And... I can add attributes with a utf8-encoded value, but not with
>> many encoded values ...

SV> Are you sure it isn't just your LDAP client that displays it as ?, I
SV> find it hard to believe that PHP actually stores it as a ?. I'm not
SV> sure what you mean by the last comment.

I use this function for en- and decoding the result arrays and new
entries...

function code_a($array,$func="de"){
                // Function ruft für jedes Value die En- oder Decoder function auf
                // function calls for every leaf in the tree the en- or
                // decoder
                if (strtolower($func)=="en"){
                        $coder = "utf8_encode";
                }elseif (strtolower($func)=="de"){
                        $coder = "utf8_decode";
                }
                $tmp="";
                
                if (!is_array($array))return $coder($array);
                else {
                        while (list($key, $val) = each ($array)){
                                $tmp[$key]=code_a($val,$func);
                        }
                        return $tmp;
                }
        }

... if i run this on the DN (cn=Frank Schäfer,...), the script saves
the entry at cn=Frank Sch?fer,...
(My LDAP-Browser (in JAVA on Win), PHP and ldap_search under Linux display it like this)

I'm using this line to save the entry:
$r=ldap_add($this->ser[ds],$dn,$ldap_ent);
...it's wrapped in a method (called add()) in a bigger connection-object
$this->ser[ds] hold the LDAP-link and $ldap_ent and $dn was encoded
with code_a()

>> Q: What to do for saving many special-chars-strings for one attribute?
SV> So you have multiple values where at least two have non-ascii characters?
... i've multiple values with at least one value with special chars...
like "ä","ü" or "ö"
... i'm using also code_a() here, so i'm using the same pice of code here

>> I'm running PHP 4.0.4pl1 and Open-LDAP 2.0.7.
>> ...perhaps this behavior depends on a bug..?

SV> If you could send me a smallest possible PHP script that shows the bad
SV> behavior, I'll try it out and fix the bug, or if there is no bug tell
SV> you why.
... I'll trying to extract some code snipplets for you...



Mit freundlichen Grüssen

Felix Meulenkamp 

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