more specifically, you can find the pecl extension here:
http://pecl.php.net/package/yp
Only the download though. As of posting no documentation lives there.
CXXV. YP/NIS Functions
Introducere
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.
Notã: This extension is not available on Windows platforms.
Necesități
None besides functions from standard Unix libraries which are always available (either libc or libnsl, configure will detect which one to use).
Instalare
To get these functions to work, you have to configure PHP with --enable-yp.
Configurare la rulare
Această extensie nu definește directive de configurare.
Constante predefinite
Aceste constante sunt definite de această extensie și vor fi disponibile doar cînd extensia a fost fie compilată odată la instalarea PHP fie dacă extensia este încărcată dinamic la rulare.
- YPERR_BADARGS (integer)
- YPERR_BADDB (integer)
- YPERR_BUSY (integer)
- YPERR_DOMAIN (integer)
- YPERR_KEY (integer)
- YPERR_MAP (integer)
- YPERR_NODOM (integer)
- YPERR_NOMORE (integer)
- YPERR_PMAP (integer)
- YPERR_RESRC (integer)
- YPERR_RPC (integer)
- YPERR_YPBIND (integer)
- YPERR_YPERR (integer)
- YPERR_YPSERV (integer)
- YPERR_VERS (integer)
- Cuprins
- yp_all -- Traverse the map and call a function on each entry
- yp_cat -- Return an array containing the entire map
- yp_err_string -- Returns the error string associated with the given error code
- yp_errno -- Returns the error code of the previous operation
- yp_first -- Returns the first key-value pair from the named map
- yp_get_default_domain -- Fetches the machine's default NIS domain
- yp_master -- Returns the machine name of the master NIS server for a map
- yp_match -- Returns the matched line
- yp_next -- Returns the next key-value pair in the named map.
- yp_order -- Returns the order number for a map
