Exposing LDAP controls

Hi there As suggested by Pierre, I am now resending this on the internals ml (with some minor clarifications): While trying to add support for LDAP assertions (rfc4528, [1]) in the PHP LDAP bindings I started to think about whether it would be a good idea to expose LDAP controls (resp. LDAP control values) to the PHP user directly. I think it would allow more flexibility when implementing other controls, like the the LDAP Extension for Scrolling View Browsing of Search Results [2a], [2b]. Furthermore it would follow a similar approach as the Python LDAP library. On the other hand it probably makes the features harder to use than with custom wrappers (like already done for the pagination extension), but this is again something which could be solved by pure PHP wrapper libraries. This means we would have different functions for generating specific controls, represented as resources to the PHP user. A list of such resources can then be passed to the ldap_modify, etc. functions (like the corresponding C functions). What do you think? Thanks in advance, best, Tiziano [1] https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/538 [2a] http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/55/I-D/draft-ietf-ldapext-ldapv3-vlv-09.txt [2b] http://www.openldap.org/software/man.cgi?query=slapo-sssvlv&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenLDAP+2.4-Release&format=html -- stepping stone GmbH Neufeldstrasse 9 CH-3012 Bern Telefon: +41 31 332 53 63 www.stepping-stone.ch tiziano.mueller@stepping-stone.ch