Attributes come in as an array?

[nspaul]

When I return a User object (specifically, a LdapRecord\Models\ActiveDirectory\User object), I am wondering why all of the user's attributes come in as an array. Is this the expected behavior?

As an example, when I use LdapRecord and query for my own user, here is the givenname attribute that is in both the original array and the attributes array:

"givenname" => array:1 [▼
      0 => "Paul"
]

I'm just trying to figure out the proper way to search for a user and then send that user object into a Blade view, and then within that Blade view I want to be able to display a variety of user attributes on the screen, using something like {{ $user->givenname }}

Thanks in advance.

[klepptor]

@nspaul Did you solve your problem? I'm facing a similar issue...

[stevebauman]

Hi @nspaul, apologies for the late reply on this issue.

This is intended behaviour. PHP will return all LDAP attributes as arrays, regardless if it's multi-value, or single-value. It has no knowledge of attributes and their behaviour, so it's impossible for it to decisively return which attributes as single-values.

LdapRecord includes a $user->getFirstAttribute('{attribute}') method for this use-case. This will always return the first value in the attribute array and will return null if it does not exist.

$user = User::findBy('cn', 'John Doe');

$name = $user->getFirstAttribute('givenname');

In Blade:

{{ $user->getFirstAttribute('givenname') }}

This is described in the documentation here: https://ldaprecord.com/docs/core/v2/models/#array-conversion