User Guide

254 Developing Web Applications with ColdFusion

ATTRIBUTES="dn, objectclasses, attributetypes"

SCOPE="BASE"

FILTER="objectclass=*"

START=#EntryList.subschemasubentry#

DN=#dn#

objectClasses: #objectclasses#

attribute Types: #attributetypes#

</CFOUTPUT>

</BODY>

</HTML>

3. Change the SERVER from testldap.company.com to a valid LDAP server.

4. Save the template as

testldap.cfm in myapps under your Web root directory and

view it in your browser.

Note To be able to the schema for an LDAP server, the server must support

LDAP 3.0.

Querying an LDAP Directory

CFLDAP allows you to search an LDAP directory and output the results of your query

on a page. You can sort query results and return them to the browser or perform

further processing with CFOUTPUT, CFREPORT, and related tags.

Search Filters

A search string of the form attribute operator value defines the filter syntax. The default

filter, objectclass=*, returns all entries for the attribute.

The following table lists the filter operators. Note the prefix notation for the Boolean

operators.

CFLDAP Filter Operators

Operator Example

= o=allaire - organization name equals allaire

~= o~=alliare - organization name approximates allaire

>= st>=ma - names appearing after "ma" in an alphabetical state attribute

list

<= st<=ma - names appearing before "ma" in an alphabetical state

attribute list