For those wondering, this function appears to do the same thing as:
<?php
ldap_err2str( ldap_errno() );
?>
ldap_error
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
ldap_error — Return the LDAP error message of the last LDAP command
Description
string ldap_error
( resource
$link_identifier
)
Returns the string error message explaining the error generated by the
last LDAP command for the given link_identifier.
While LDAP errno numbers are standardized, different libraries return
different or even localized textual error messages. Never check for a
specific error message text, but always use an error number to check.
Unless you lower your warning level in your php.ini sufficiently or prefix your LDAP commands with @ (at) characters to suppress warning output, the errors generated will also show up in your HTML output.
Return Values
Returns string error message.
See Also
- ldap_err2str() - Convert LDAP error number into string error message
- ldap_errno() - Return the LDAP error number of the last LDAP command
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User Contributed Notes 2 notes
edA-qa at disemia dot com ¶
10 years ago
Michael Newton ¶
10 months ago
Note that you can sometimes get more detailed error messages by getting the value of the LDAP_OPT_DIAGNOSTIC_MESSAGE option.
For example, after a recent connection error the two gave very different info:
<?php
$conn = ldap_connect($server);
ldap_search($conn, $dn, $query);
echo "ldap_error: " . ldap_error($conn);
ldap_get_option($conn, LDAP_OPT_DIAGNOSTIC_MESSAGE, $err);
echo "ldap_get_option: $err";
?>
This resulted in:
ldap_error: Can't contact LDAP server
ldap_get_option: TLS: hostname does not match CN in peer certificate
