Question

OK, below is a get_members function in my controller that I pulled and manipulated from the interwebs… i can print out the information from $output in the controller, but I don’t want to do that… I cannot figure out how to get it to be part of my view so I can list info from it freely…

I know it has something to do with the $data array in the index function… can anyone assist?

<?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

class Phonedirectory extends CI_Controller {

function get_members($group=FALSE,$inclusive=FALSE) {
    // Active Directory server
    $ldap_host = "fps";

    // Active Directory DN
    $ldap_dn = "OU=Users,DC=xxx,DC=org";

    // User attributes we want to keep
    $keep = array(
        "samaccountname",
        "displayName",
        "telephonenumber"
    );

    // Connect to AD
    $ldap = ldap_connect($ldap_host) or die("Could not connect to LDAP");
    ldap_set_option ($ldap, LDAP_OPT_REFERRALS, 0);
    ldap_set_option($ldap, LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION, 3);

    ldap_bind($ldap, "CN=LDAP Reader,OU=Users - Special,DC=xxx,DC=org", "xxx") or die("Could not bind to LDAP");

     // Begin building query
     if($group) $query = "(&"; else $query = "";

     $query .= "(&(objectClass=user)(objectCategory=person))";

    // Filter by memberOf, if group is set
    if(is_array($group)) {
        // Looking for a members amongst multiple groups
            if($inclusive) {
                // Inclusive - get users that are in any of the groups
                // Add OR operator
                $query .= "(|";
            } else {
                // Exclusive - only get users that are in all of the groups
                // Add AND operator
                $query .= "(&";
            }

            // Append each group
            foreach($group as $g) $query .= "(memberOf=OU=$g,$ldap_dn)";

            $query .= ")";
    } elseif($group) {
        // Just looking for membership of one group
        $query .= "(memberOf=OU=$group,$ldap_dn)";
    }

    // Close query
    if($group) $query .= ")"; else $query .= "";

    // Uncomment to output queries onto page for debugging
    // print_r($query);

    // Search AD
    $results = ldap_search($ldap,$ldap_dn,$query);
    $entries = ldap_get_entries($ldap, $results);

    // Remove first entry (it's always blank)
    array_shift($entries);

    $output = array(); // Declare the output array

    $i = 0; // Counter
    // Build output array
    foreach($entries as $u) {
        foreach($keep as $x) {
            // Check for attribute
            if(isset($u[$x][0])) $attrval = $u[$x][0]; else $attrval = NULL;

            // Append attribute to output array
            $output[$i][$x] = $attrval;
        }
        $i++;
    }
    return $output;
}

public function index() {
  $data = array('title' => 'Phone Directory', 'main_content' => 'pages/phoneDirectory');    
  $this->load->view('template/main', $data);
}
}

Answer 1

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it sounds like you just want the output sent to the view?
If that’s the case, then add this to the index function

public function index() {
  $data = array('title' => 'Phone Directory', 'main_content' => 'pages/phoneDirectory'); 
  $data['members'] = $this->get_members();
  $this->load->view('template/main', $data);
}

or however you want to append that to your data array.
Then in the view you can do:

<?php echo print_r($members, TRUE); ?>