ldap_connect Connect to an LDAP server &reftitle.description; resourceldap_connect stringhost&null; intport389 Creates an LDAP link identifier and checks whether the given host and port are plausible. This function does not open a connection. It checks whether the given parameters are plausible and can be used to open a connection as soon as one is needed. &reftitle.parameters; host This field supports using a hostname or, with OpenLDAP 2.x.x and later, a full LDAP URI of the form ldap://hostname:port or ldaps://hostname:port for SSL encryption. You can also provide multiple LDAP-URIs separated by a space as one string Note that hostname:port is not a supported LDAP URI as the schema is missing. port The port to connect to. Not used when using LDAP URIs. &reftitle.returnvalues; Returns a positive LDAP link identifier when the provided hostname/port combination or LDAP URI seems plausible. It's a syntactic check of the provided parameters but the server(s) will not be contacted! If the syntactic check fails it returns &false;. When OpenLDAP 2.x.x is used, ldap_connect will always return a resource as it does not actually connect but just initializes the connecting parameters. The actual connect happens with the next calls to ldap_* funcs, usually with ldap_bind. If no arguments are specified then the link identifier of the already opened link will be returned. &reftitle.examples; ]]> ]]> &reftitle.seealso; ldap_bind