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How do I get All Active Directory Members of Nested Groups - PHP

Asked by greeni in Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), PHP Scripting Language, Active Directory

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In Active Directory I would like to find ALL physical users that are in the Group, for example:
OU=Distribution Lists,OU=My_OU,DC=my-connection,DC=ch

Obtaining one level is rather straightforward - I get physical users and more Groups if they are present. I am using 'member' property for that.
Problem starts with going deeper, in scenario when Group contains Groups (which can then contain other Groups or finally physical users I am looking for). I wrote a recursive function for that, however I am getting only physical users that are just  one level down from Group I started a search from. While debugging I see that Groups are being processed by recursive function but are not passed to function's RETURN variable; only one level users are passed to this variable. What am I doing wrong ?Start Free Trial 
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/*
$members  Members(s) of a group
$ad  resource $link_identifier
*/
 
function check_ad_data($members, $ad) 
{
  // get rid of array's 'count' key => value so not to include it for iteration
  unset($members['count']);
  
  foreach($members as $member) {
    
    // get entries of member from Active Directory
    $attributes = array("objectGUID", "mail", "name", "objectClass", "member");
    $filter = "(mail=*)";
    $result = ldap_search($ad, $member, $filter, $attributes); 
    $entries = ldap_get_entries($ad, $result);
    
    
    // if member is the Person
    if($entries[0]['objectclass'][1] == 'person') {
      // append a person's name to array
      $users[] = $entries[0]['name'][0];
    }
    
    // if member is the Group
    if($entries[0]['objectclass'][1] == 'group') {
      // obtain all members of this group
      $membersOfGroup = $entries[0]['member'];    
      // call a recursive function
      check_ad_data($membersOfGroup, $ad);
    }
    
  }
 
  // return All the users
  return $users;
 
}
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Zones: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), PHP Scripting Language, Active Directory
Tags: PHP, IE 7
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