note 103586 modified in function.ldap-get-values-len by danbrown

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. <?php if (!$val = @ldap_get_values_len($con, $entry, "$attribute;binary")) die ('Error retrieving value (' . ldap_error($con) . ')'); ?> I hope this saves someone the pain I went through trawling Google for an answer. --was-- I had a lot of issues with decoding errors using ldap_get_values_len() and found a of unanswered calls for help on a lot of forums. The error message is - Warning: ldap_get_values(): Cannot get the value(s) of attribute Decoding error in xxx.php. It appears that this error seems to cover a multitude sins including simple typos in the attribute name. After using PHP to list the attributes of a particular record I noticed that the attribute userCertificate wasn't listed simply as userCertificate but userCertificate;binary instead. I wrote this into my code and all was fixed. So my code looks as follows. if (!$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. http://php.net/manual/en/function.ldap-get-values-len.php