PHP 4.0 Bug #5001: String parameter data of LDAP function calls is corrupted

From: johan.troedsson@ei.sigma.se Operating system: Linux Redhat 5.2 PHP version: 4.0 Release Candidate 2 PHP Bug Type: LDAP related Bug description: String parameter data of LDAP function calls is corrupted When I create the array and strings that goes into several LDAP calls, I typically type: $dataA[$key] = utf8_encode($value); $searchbase = utf8_encode($dn); etc. This worked fine in PHP3, but in PHP4 the data transmitted is (sometimes?) corrupt as it reaches the LDAP Server. I circumvented the problem by using the trim() function on every string value (also in the arrays), before passing them to the PHP LDAP functions. E.g. o=Company Sigma becomes o=Company Sigma??*9 st=Oresund becomes st=Oresund2??*09:3 The appended characters seems to be arbitrary binary values. When trying to retrieve one of the nodes holding these values, an LDAP "Decoding error" is returned. Config line: ./configure \ --with-apache=../apache_1.3.12 \ --with-pgsql \ --with-mhash \ --with-ldap \ --disable-short-tags \ --enable-track-vars \ --enable-memory-limit=yes