Re: Basic search always returning 0 entries

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 11:07:08AM -0500, Jim Harle wrote:
> The problem is in the LDIF code.  The following works:
> if ($searchobj){
>         $ldif = new Net::LDAP::LDIF("XX","a");
>         $ldif->write_entry($searchobj->entries());
>         $ldif->done();
> }
> 
> but it puts the results in file XX.  Substituting - for XX doesn't send it to
> stdout.  There is nothing in the docs to say that it should.  You shouldn't

Maybe not, but as "-", "w" will send to stdout I don't see it as unreasonable
to expect "-","a" to also go to stdout.

> need to use LDIF if you only want to display the results.  There are lots of
> better ways.

Can you give examples ? Most people I know of use LDIF to display results,
certainly when in a debugging situation.

Graham.