Hi Bill,
Sorry, I was in a meeting so wasn't staring at IRC. :)
my $ad = Net::LDAP->new("ad.wjgilmore.com");
Yes, that creates a new object, $ad, of the class Net::LDAP.
The author of that class, apparently, allows a single argument to be passed in -- the server you want to connect to. Class authors can do whatever they want to arguments passed into new().
$ad->bind("ad-web\@ad.wjgilmore.com", password=>"secret");
In OO programming bind() is called an object method. (method, function... in perl it's all just a sub {} under the hood :)
Many people doing OO in perl5 use Moose nowadays. Check it out!: https://metacpan.org/module/Moose
I saw you just joined this mailing list! Welcome!
j
/me runs off to pick up his dogs at the vet :)
20:24 < jhannah> hi Bill :)
20:24 < BillBrush> I'm on the OLUG list
20:25 < jhannah> I'm sorry. ;)
20:25 < BillBrush> :-) No worries, I mainly lurk (for about 10) years
20:25 < jhannah> ya, me too
20:26 < jhannah> you might want to /join #OmahaLUG
20:26 < BillBrush> I'm toying with the idea of using my novice perl skills to write an LDAP
query script. Can I ask some realy basic questions?
20:26 < jhannah> absolutely. :) you might want to join the omaha.pm.org mailing list
20:27 < BillBrush> Just to give some idea, I've been programming at various basic levels since
84, but I'm not a "dev" and object oriented came long after I was out of
school.
20:28 < BillBrush> So I'm looking at this statement:
20:28 < BillBrush> my $ad = Net::LDAP->new("ad.wjgilmore.com")
20:28 < BillBrush> or die "Could not connect!";
20:28 < BillBrush> That creates an object ($ad) and sets the object property to (ad.blah.com)
20:28 < BillBrush> Am I reading that right?
20:29 < BillBrush> Assuming than I am, this statement then uses the bind function of the object
to open the connection to the LDAP.
20:29 < BillBrush> $ad->bind("ad-web\@ad.wjgilmore.com", password=>"secret");
20:30 < BillBrush> Am I on track or out in left field?
20:41 * BillBrush thinks he scared Jay off
21:23 -!- BillBrush [~bbrush at netv-net3674.unl.edu] has quit [Remote host closed the connection]
21:43 < jhannah> haha, was in a meeting