On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Meir Kriheli <m...@mksoft.co.il> wrote: > On 12/29/2009 03:45 AM, Uri Even-Chen wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am using the PHPwhois class ( >> https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwhois/ ) on my Speedy Whois >> website ( http://www.speedywhois.net/ ). My version of the class is 4 >> years old. I checked and there are many bugs, some of them I reported >> ( https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=31207&atid=401654 >> ), and they also didn't release PHPwhois for more than a year. I am >> now looking for someone to help me fix the bugs and release the >> PHPwhois class, and add it to my Speedy Whois release on sourceforge ( >> https://sourceforge.net/projects/speedywhois/ ). The code has to be >> rewritten, for example to avoid notices and warnings when using >> undefined variables etc. If one of you has some time, it would help >> if you can download the files from the CVS on PHPwhois (they don't >> release new tar.gz files), then check which bugs are not fixed and fix >> them. Then release PHPwhois - if they don't accept the release we can >> fork the project. And then release Speedy Whois with the bugs fixed. >> My estimate of the work is up to 3 days, maybe even one day of work if >> you're very good in programming. I can help test and generate bugs, >> but I'm not that good in object oriented programming. I also don't >> know how to download the files from CVS, if you let me know it can >> help (I use Windows XP). >> >> If you can help, please contact me. >> >> by the way, there is also a problem with domain names registered at >> godaddy - they don't return full whois results to my IP address. Do >> you have an idea how to overcome this? > > IMO PHP developers should be aware of PEAR [1] and use it when possible. The > repo includes a whois class called Net_Whois [2], maintained - current > stable released last month (feature request). > > [1] http://pear.php.net/ > [2] http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Whois
Sorry, I'm not using PEAR. If you can implement the same functionality using Net_Whois - I don't mind, but I don't want to install it myself. The PHPwhois class is good, and returns good results for most domain names. Uri. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
