how to fetch the data from active directory as JSON? - php

Question

I have the below PHP file through which I am trying to make an ajax call and fetch my required data from the JSON array :
<?php
$username = 'xxxxxxxxxxxx';
$password = 'xxxxxxx';
$server = 'ldap://xxxxxxx';
$domain = '#asia.xxxxxxxx.com';
$port = 389;
$ldap_connection = ldap_connect($server, $port);
if (! $ldap_connection)
{
echo '<p>LDAP SERVER CONNECTION FAILED</p>';
exit;
}
// Help talking to AD
ldap_set_option($ldap_connection, LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION, 3);
ldap_set_option($ldap_connection, LDAP_OPT_REFERRALS, 0);
$ldap_bind = #ldap_bind($ldap_connection, $username.$domain, $password);
if (! $ldap_bind)
{
echo '<p>LDAP BINDING FAILED</p>';
exit;
}
else
{
echo 'login successful';
}
$base_dn = "OU=Employees,OU=Accounts,OU=xxxxxx,DC=asia,DC=xxxxxx,DC=com";
//$dispname=$_POST['employeeID'];
$dispname="100676";
$filter ="(&(objectClass=user)(displayName=$dispname))";
$attr = array("sn","givenname","employeeid","distinguishedname","displayname","samaccountName","department","manager","mail","title","thumbnailphoto");
$result = ldap_search($ldap_connection,$base_dn,$filter,$attr);
$rescount = ldap_count_entries($ldap_connection,$result);
$data = ldap_get_entries($ldap_connection,$result);
// echo json_encode($data);
if ($data["count"] > 0)
{
for ($i=0; $i<$data["count"]; $i++)
{
echo "<p> sn: " . $data[$i]["sn"][0]."<br/>";
echo "givenname: ". $data[$i]["givenname"][0] ."<br/>" ;
echo "employeeID: " . $data[$i]["employeeid"][0]."<br/>";
echo "distinguishedName: " . $data[$i]["distinguishedname"][0]."<br/>";
echo "displayName: " . $data[$i]["displayname"][0]."<br/>";
echo "sAMAccountName: " . $data[$i]["samaccountname"][0]."<br/>";
echo "department: ". $data[$i]["department"][0]."<br/>";
echo "manager: " .$data[$i]["manager"][0]."<br/>";
echo "mail: ". $data[$i]["mail"][0]."<br/>";
echo "title: " .$data[$i]["title"][0]."<br/>";
echo "photo: " .$data[$i]["thumbnailphoto"][0]."<br/>";
echo "<br/><br/>";
}
}
else
{
echo "<p>No results found!</p>";
}
?>
The kind of output I am getting now :
<p> sn: xxxxxx<br/>givenname: xxxxx<br/>
employeeID: 0050<br/
>distinguishedName: CN=xxxx xxxxx,OU=Employees,OU=Accounts,OU=India,DC=asia,DC=xxxxxxx,DC=com<br/>
displayName: Mark Hewettk<br/>sAMAccountName: xxxxxxx<br/>
department: xxxxx<br/>manager: CN=xxxxxx xxxxxxx,OU=Employees,OU=Accounts,OU=India,DC=asia,DC=xxxx,DC=com
<br/>
mail: mhewettk#abc.com<br/>
title: xyz<br/>
photo :����%&'()*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz���������������������������������������������������������������������������
I do not want to echo the data(I am doing so here to show you guys that it is fetching the correct data), I want it as JSON so that I may use it in my UI.
Kindly help me on how to fetch the data from active directory as JSON ?
JS involved :
$('.leaderboard li').on('click', function () {
$.ajax({
url: "../popupData/activedirectory.php", // your script above a little adjusted
type: "POST",
data: {id:$(this).find('.parent-div').data('id')},
success: function(data){
console.info(data);
data = JSON.parse(data);
$('#popup').fadeIn();
//whatever attributes you want to pull from active directory
error: function(){
alert('failed, possible script does not exist');
}
});
});

Answer 1

How about converting the array you get back from ldap_get_entries to a json object using json_encode
echo json_encode($data, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);