Building LDAP Queries The LdapQueryBuilder class provides an easy object oriented method of producing LDAP filters of any complexity. Those familiar with Doctrine's QueryBuilder will find this syntax ...

DDC also provides an abstraction API over top of the LDAP query syntax. This API provides an enumeration of Active Directory fields, giving developers an easy and statically-typed way of building ...

The query syntax is translated to the regular method call syntax (through a pure syntax transformation). So everything in the query syntax is representable in method form. The reverse is not true.