Question

I’m doing some LDAP development in PHP and have run into some kind of, probably rookie, value assignment in PHP.

My issue is specific to LDAP_MODIFY, but is probably a generic issue. I’m trying to update an attribute and the following attribute gives me an attribute not found error:

$email = '[e-mail]';
$attributes   = array( "userPrincipleName" => "$email"); 

But the following is successful:

$attributes = array( "userPrincipalName" => '[e-mail]') ; 

If I do a print_r($attributes); of either I get:

Array
(
    [userPrincipleName] => [e-mail]
)

Anyone have a clue? I’m sure it’s something super simple.

Answer 1

You misspelled principal as principle in your first attempt… it has nothing to do with how you are assigning your variables.

To clarify – attribute not found does not mean it’s seeing a null value for the index userPrincipalName – the LDAP server is saying the index userPrincipleName itself doesn’t exist as an attribute of a principal’s LDAP record.