h1. Helpers 

h2. Ltool

h3. basedn()

Returns the basedn specified in the [[ldap config]]

h3. escape($str,$all = FALSE)

Escapes LDAP filter strings according to "RFC2254":http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2254.html
By default it does not escape the '*' character to keep wildcard search support.

Arguments:
# _String_ *$str*: The string to escape
# _Boolean_ *$all* (false): Set this to true to also escape the wildcard character '*'

Examples:
<pre>
echo Ltool:: escape('(attribute=\abc*)');
// (attribute=\5cabc*)

echo Ltool:: escape('(attribute=\abc*)',TRUE);
// (attribute=\5cabc\2A)
</pre>