add dropdown list to advanced search criteria

[vlepetit]

Hi,

it's possible to add dropdown list to advanced for some search criteria like team. The list may be contain in ldap or just right in hard list in config files ?

This functionality to help users who don't know the name of all team in organisation and want to know members of differents teams or services..

Regards,
vlepetit

[coudot]

Interesting feature, but will not be in 0.2 which should be released soon.

[vlepetit]

Can you give me advice to implement this feature in your code.

In which file can i works ?
the best way or approach ?

And maybe i can propose code...

Regards,
vlepetit

[coudot]

You new to create a new type and define how it will appear in search form in templates/search_displayer.tpl

There is already a select box for boolean values, you can use the same idea.

[vlepetit]

hi,

so i tried that but i had some problems

1 - I had copy already existing function 'get_attribute' and created an adapt to a new smarty function in smarty.inc.php to return an array ->

function get_attributes_entity($params, $smarty) {

    $return = "";
    $dn = $params["dn"];
    $attributes = $params["attributes"];
    $ldap_url = $params["ldap_url"];
    $ldap_starttls = $params["ldap_starttls"];
    $ldap_binddn = $params["ldap_binddn"];
    $ldap_bindpw = $params["ldap_bindpw"];
    $ldap_user_filter = $params["ldap_user_filter"];

    # Connect to LDAP
    $ldap_connection = wp_ldap_connect($ldap_url, $ldap_starttls, $ldap_binddn, $ldap_bindpw);

    $ldap = $ldap_connection[0];
    $result = $ldap_connection[1];

    if ($ldap) {

        # Search entry
        $search = ldap_search($ldap, $dn, $ldap_user_filter, array($attributes));

        $errno = ldap_errno($ldap);

        if ( $errno ) {
            error_log("LDAP - Search error $errno  (".ldap_error($ldap).")");
        } else {
            $entry = ldap_get_entries($ldap, $search);

            //$return = $entry[0][$attribute][0];
            $return = $entry;
        }
    }

    $template->assign($params['entitys'], $return);
    /*return $return;*/
}

2 - i had register this new plugin in index.php ->

# Register plugins
require_once("../lib/smarty.inc.php");
$smarty->registerPlugin("function", "get_attribute", "get_attribute");
$smarty->registerPlugin("function", "convert_ldap_date", "convert_ldap_date");
$smarty->registerPlugin("function", "get_attributes_entity", "get_attributes_entity");

3 - and i tried to called this function and manipulate the retrurned array values in search_displayer.tpl ->

{elseif {$item} eq 'organizationalunit' and $type eq 'entity'}
			{get_attributes_entity entitys="entitysValues" dn="ou=structures,dc=univ-psl,dc=fr" attributes="supanncodeentite,ou" ldap_url="{$ldap_params.ldap_url}" ldap_starttls="{$ldap_params.ldap_starttls}" ldap_binddn="{$ldap_params.ldap_binddn}" ldap_bindpw="{$ldap_params.ldap_bindpw}" ldap_user_filter="ou=*"}
			
			<select class="form-control" id="{$item}" name="{$item}" placeholder="{$label}">
			{foreach from=$entitysValues key=supanncodeentite item=ou}
			{*<option value="{$entity.supanncodeentite[0]}">{$entity.ou}</option>*}
			{$supanncodeentite} : {$ou}<br/>
			{$entitys|@print_r}
			{/foreach}
                        </select>
            {else}....

But at this moment i can not take values inside returned array.

Ans i don't now if my function/plugin return something...

Maybe you can help me ?

Regards,
vlepetit

[coudot]

You must not assign to template inside the smarty function. You need to call the function in the template.

[coudot]

Seems a plugin cannot return an array: smarty-php/smarty#228

The only solution I see is to search for values in php code and assign the result to a template var. It is not as clean as calling directly the plugin in smarty template, but this should work. I will give a try.

[coudot]

Code done in #74

[coudot]

Doc updated: https://ltb-project.org/documentation/white-pages/0.3/config_attributes