wrossmann/whois

wrossmann/whois - WHOIS Client object for PHP

Features:

• Simplified resolution of domains names and IP addresses
• Does not rely on distributed lists of WHOIS servers, uses IANA/ARIN 'root' server referrals.
• Includes optional, simple, PDO-driven caching functionality to improve response times and mediate load on WHOIS roots.
• Requires only PHP >= 5.4, no external binaries or libraries.
• PHP7 compatible.

Classes

All classes take an optional final parameter that is an array containing key => value pairs that can be used to override certain protected properties. Overrideable parameters set in each class' private $overrides parameter, and are detailed below., _(*1)

\wrossmann\whois\Whois - Base WHOIS class.

Public Methods:, _(*2)

• void __construct(array $params = [])
• string query(string $domain)
• static string stripComments(string $input, bool $strip_blank = true, string $regex = '/^(?:#|%).*$/')
  • Strips comments from WHOIS responses, generally formatted as lines beginning with either # or %.
  • Second parameter controls stripping of blank lines
  • Third parameted allows the comment matching regex to be overridden.

Overrideable Parameters:, _(*3)

• max_response_size - The maximum amount of data, in bytes, to accept from a WHOIS response. [Default: 20480]
• normalize_line_breaks - If true replaces all instances of \r\n with \n. [Default: true]

\wrossmann\whois\CachedWhois - WHOIS class with simple caching to a PDO database

Public Methods:, _(*4)

• Public methods inherited from parent class Whois.
• void __construct(\PDO $dbh, array $params = [])
• static boolean initDB(\PDO $dbh)
  • Issues CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS statement to create table, see src/CachedWhois.php.

Overrideable Parameters:, _(*5)

• cache_lifetime - Length of time, is seconds, to cache a TLD WHOIS server referral. [Default 604800 aka 7 days]

\wrossmann\whois\IPWhois - Class for performing IPWHOIS queries

Public Methods:, _(*6)

• Public methods inherited from parent class Whois.
• void __construct(array $params=[])
• string function query(string $ipaddr)
• static bool validateIP(string $ipaddr)

Overrideable Parameters: None, _(*7)

Interfaces

WhoisInterface

• string query(string $domain)
• static string stripComments(string $input, bool $strip_blank = true, string $regex = '/^(?:#|%).*$/')

TODO

• CachedIPWhois Class
• Make IPWhois::validate() check for reserved addresses.