handling multiply named attributes in PHP and PERL

[Francis Swasey <Frank.Swasey@uvm.edu>]

Does anyone have example code for php-ldap and/or perl-ldap to figure 
out what the canonical name of an attribute is so they can interrogate 
the results of a search for the correct attribute?

AKA, I have multiple applications that were written using "userid" but 
that's really an alias of "uid" and they aren't working so well with 
OpenLDAP since it is returning "uid" and expecting them to know that's 
what they really asked for.

I'd rather show them the error of their ways and give them example code 
to deal with their problem than break everything else (such as nss_ldap) 
 that is dependent upon the "uid" attribute name...  I hate cans of worms!

Thanks,
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