note 103586 added to function.ldap-get-values-len

I had a lot of issues with decoding errors using ldap_get_values_len() and found a of unanswered calls for help on a lot of forums. The error message is - Warning: ldap_get_values(): Cannot get the value(s) of attribute Decoding error in xxx.php. It appears that this error seems to cover a multitude sins including simple typos in the attribute name. After using PHP to list the attributes of a particular record I noticed that the attribute userCertificate wasn't listed simply as userCertificate but userCertificate;binary instead. I wrote this into my code and all was fixed. So my code looks as follows. if (!$val = @ldap_get_values_len($con, $entry, "$attribute;binary")) die ('Error retrieving value (' . ldap_error($con) . ')'); I hope this saves someone the pain I went through trawling Google for an answer. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 86.149.195.100 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ldap-get-values-len.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/103586 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/103586/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/103586/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/103586/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/103586/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/103586/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/103586/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/103586 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/103586 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php