Re: LDAP server side sorting

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 05:26:22PM +0200, Christos Sintoris wrote: > > Server side sorting is useful when network traffic costs more than > processing time. Yes, there are some exceptions. > The server side sorting control in conjunction with the virtual list > view control returns only a subset of entries to the client. Yes. > In the PHP Manual is stated that is possible to set ldap controls using > the ldap_set_option directive. This however does not seem to work. The > code I used to try this is below. > > I would like to know if anyone has tried it successfully or has any > experience in setting up server side controls through php. I have, it works. If you were to use it for this, you would have to BER encode a sequence and pass a string not an array. But that's not the main problem. The way I interpret RFC 2891, the server side control is to be sent along with the search operation, not as a individual operation. This is not currently supported in PHP. I'm sort of planning to implement it. I'm not able to test it though, if you or others know of a publicly available server that I can test against, let me know (okay, I could probably find one myself with some digging around). Stig