PHP ActiveX

Find Certificate by Serial Number

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Demonstrates how to find a certificate having the specified hexadecimal serial number.

Note: Requires Chilkat v10.1.2 or later.

PHP ActiveX

<?php

$success = 0;

$certStore = new COM("Chilkat.CertStore");

// This example will search the certs on connected USB tokens and smartcards.
$argNotUsed = '';
$success = $certStore->OpenSmartcard($argNotUsed);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $certStore->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Find the certificate having a serial number = "48FC93B46055948D36A7C98A89D69416".
$hexSerial = '48FC93B46055948D36A7C98A89D69416';
$json = new COM("Chilkat.JsonObject");
$json->UpdateString('serial',$hexSerial);

$cert = new COM("Chilkat.Cert");
$success = $certStore->FindCert($json,$cert);
if ($success == 1) {
    // Show the serial number and subject CN
    print 'Found: ' . $cert->SerialNumber . ', ' . $cert->SubjectCN . "\n";
}
else {
    print 'Not found.' . "\n";
}


?>