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<sect3 id="zend.ldap.api.reference.zend-ldap-filter">
    <title>Zend_Ldap_Filter</title>

    <table id="zend.ldap.api.reference.zend-filter.table">
        <title>Zend_Ldap_Filter API</title>

        <tgroup cols="2">
            <thead>
                <row>
                    <entry>Method</entry>
                    <entry>Description</entry>
                </row>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
                <row>
                    <entry>
                        <emphasis><code>Zend_Ldap_Filter equals(string $attr,
                        string $value)</code> </emphasis>
                    </entry>
                    <entry>
                        Creates an 'equals' filter:
                        <code>(attr=value)</code>.
                    </entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                    <entry>
                        <emphasis><code>Zend_Ldap_Filter begins(string $attr,
                        string $value)</code> </emphasis>
                    </entry>
                    <entry>
                        Creates an 'begins with' filter:
                        <code>(attr=value*)</code>.
                    </entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                    <entry>
                        <emphasis><code>Zend_Ldap_Filter ends(string $attr, string
                        $value)</code> </emphasis>
                    </entry>
                    <entry>
                        Creates an 'ends with' filter:
                        <code>(attr=*value)</code>.
                    </entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                    <entry>
                        <emphasis><code>Zend_Ldap_Filter contains(string $attr,
                        string $value)</code> </emphasis>
                    </entry>
                    <entry>
                        Creates an 'contains' filter:
                        <code>(attr=*value*)</code>.
                    </entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                    <entry>
                        <emphasis><code>Zend_Ldap_Filter greater(string $attr,
                        string $value)</code> </emphasis>
                    </entry>
                    <entry>
                        Creates an 'greater' filter:
                        <code>(attr&gt;value)</code>.
                    </entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                    <entry>
                        <emphasis><code>Zend_Ldap_Filter greaterOrEqual(string
                        $attr, string $value)</code> </emphasis>
                    </entry>
                    <entry>
                        Creates an 'greater or equal' filter:
                        <code>(attr&gt;=value)</code>.
                    </entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                    <entry>
                        <emphasis><code>Zend_Ldap_Filter less(string $attr, string
                        $value)</code> </emphasis>
                    </entry>
                    <entry>
                        Creates an 'less' filter:
                        <code>(attr&lt;value)</code>.
                    </entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                    <entry>
                        <emphasis><code>Zend_Ldap_Filter lessOrEqual(string $attr,
                        string $value)</code> </emphasis>
                    </entry>
                    <entry>
                        Creates an 'less or equal' filter:
                        <code>(attr&lt;=value)</code>.
                    </entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                    <entry>
                        <emphasis><code>Zend_Ldap_Filter approx(string $attr,
                        string $value)</code> </emphasis>
                    </entry>
                    <entry>
                        Creates an 'approx' filter:
                        <code>(attr~=value)</code>.
                    </entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                    <entry>
                        <emphasis><code>Zend_Ldap_Filter any(string $attr)</code>
                        </emphasis>
                    </entry>
                    <entry>Creates an 'any' filter: <code>(attr=*)</code>.</entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                    <entry>
                        <emphasis><code>Zend_Ldap_Filter string(string
                        $filter)</code> </emphasis>
                    </entry>
                    <entry>
                        Creates a simple custom string filter. The user is
                        responsible for all value-escaping as the filter is used as
                        is.
                    </entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                    <entry>
                        <emphasis><code>Zend_Ldap_Filter mask(string $mask, string
                        $value,...)</code> </emphasis>
                    </entry>
                    <entry>
                        Creates a filter from a string mask. All <code>$value</code>
                        parameters will be escaped and substituted into <code>$mask</code>
                        by using
                        <ulink url="http://php.net/sprintf">
                        <code>sprintf()</code></ulink>
                    </entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                    <entry>
                        <emphasis><code>Zend_Ldap_Filter
                        andFilter(Zend_Ldap_Filter_Abstract $filter,...)</code>
                        </emphasis>
                    </entry>
                    <entry>Creates an 'and' filter from all arguments given.</entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                    <entry>
                        <emphasis><code>Zend_Ldap_Filter
                        orFilter(Zend_Ldap_Filter_Abstract $filter,...)</code>
                        </emphasis>
                    </entry>
                    <entry>Creates an 'or' filter from all arguments given.</entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                    <entry>
                        <code>__construct(string $attr, string $value, string
                        $filtertype, string|null $prepend, string|null
                        $append)</code>
                    </entry>
                    <entry>
                        Constructor. Creates an arbitrary filter according to the
                        parameters supplied. The resulting filter will be a concatenation
                        <code>$attr . $filtertype . $prepend . $value . $append</code>.
                        Normally this constructor is not needed as all filters can be
                        created by using the apprpriate factory methods.
                    </entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                    <entry><code>string toString()</code></entry>
                    <entry>Returns a string representation of the filter.</entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                    <entry><code>string __toString()</code></entry>
                    <entry>
                        Returns a string representation of the filter. Proxies to
                        <code>Zend_Ldap_Filter::toString()</code>.
                    </entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                    <entry><code>Zend_Ldap_Filter_Abstract negate()</code></entry>
                    <entry>Negates the current filter.</entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                    <entry>
                        <code>Zend_Ldap_Filter_Abstract
                        addAnd(Zend_Ldap_Filter_Abstract $filter,...)</code>
                    </entry>
                    <entry>
                        Creates an 'and' filter from the current filter and all
                        filters passed in as the arguments.
                    </entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                    <entry>
                        <code>Zend_Ldap_Filter_Abstract
                        addOr(Zend_Ldap_Filter_Abstract $filter,...)</code>
                    </entry>
                    <entry>
                        Creates an 'or' filter from the current filter and all
                        filters passed in as the arguments.
                    </entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                    <entry>
                        <emphasis><code>string|array escapeValue(string|array
                        $values)</code> </emphasis>
                    </entry>
                    <entry>
                        Escapes the given <code>$values</code> according to RFC 2254
                        so that they can be safely used in <acronym>LDAP</acronym> filters. If a single string
                        is given, a string is returned - otherwise an array is returned.
                        Any control characters with an ACII code &lt; 32 as well as the
                        characters with special meaning in <acronym>LDAP</acronym> filters "*", "(", ")", and
                        "\" (the backslash) are converted into the representation of a
                        backslash followed by two hex digits representing the hexadecimal
                        value of the character.
                    </entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                    <entry>
                        <emphasis><code>string|array unescapeValue(string|array
                        $values)</code> </emphasis>
                    </entry>
                    <entry>
                        Undoes the conversion done by
                        <code>Zend_Ldap_Filter::escapeValue()</code>. Converts any
                        sequences of a backslash followed by two hex digits into the
                        corresponding character.
                    </entry>
                </row>
            </tbody>
        </tgroup>
    </table>
</sect3>