Introduction
NIS (formerly called Yellow Pages) allows network management of
important administrative files (e.g. the password file). For more
information refer to the NIS manpage and »
The Linux NIS(YP)/NYS/NIS+ HOWTO. There is also a book called » Managing NFS and NIS by Hal Stern.
Note:
This extension has been moved to the
» PECL repository and is no longer bundled with
PHP as of PHP 5.1.0.
Note: This extension is not
available on Windows platforms.
Requirements
None besides functions from standard Unix libraries which are
always available (either libc or
libnsl, configure will detect which one to use).
Installation
To get these functions to work, you have to configure PHP with
--enable-yp.
Runtime Configuration
This extension has no configuration directives defined in php.ini.
Predefined Constants
The constants below are defined by this extension, and
will only be available when the extension has either
been compiled into PHP or dynamically loaded at runtime.
-
YPERR_ACCESS
(integer)
-
access violation (this has only been added recently and is only available from PECL CVS for now)
-
YPERR_BADARGS
(integer)
-
The function arguments are bad
-
YPERR_BADDB
(integer)
-
YP database is bad
-
YPERR_BUSY
(integer)
-
Database busy
-
YPERR_DOMAIN
(integer)
-
cannot bind to server in this domain
-
YPERR_KEY
(integer)
-
no such key in map
-
YPERR_MAP
(integer)
-
no such map in server's domain
-
YPERR_NODOM
(integer)
-
Local domain name not set
-
YPERR_NOMORE
(integer)
-
No more records in map database
-
YPERR_PMAP
(integer)
-
Can't communicate with portmapper
-
YPERR_RESRC
(integer)
-
resource allocation failure
-
YPERR_RPC
(integer)
-
RPC failure - domain has been unbound
-
YPERR_YPBIND
(integer)
-
Can't communicate with ypbind
-
YPERR_YPERR
(integer)
-
internal yp server or client error
-
YPERR_YPSERV
(integer)
-
Can't communicate with ypserv
-
YPERR_VERS
(integer)
-
YP version mismatch