Whois Client PHP Library

If you are working with Whois in PHP this library provides a very basic client.

Rather than focus on the user friendly output this library focuses on the raw Whois protocol. The library is limited in function since it's intended to be a low-level client that handles only request and raw output. Basically the package supports the look up of a TLDs primary Whois server and then will do a query of the domain provided.

Requirements

• PHP >= 7.0

Features

• Pure PHP based Whois client.
• Simple API for getting raw Whois results in PHP.
• Unicode IDN and punycode support.

Installation

The best installation method is to simply use composer.

Stable version

composer require mallardduck/whois-client

Latest development version

composer require "mallardduck/whois-client":"dev-master"

Example usage

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use MallardDuck\Whois\Client;

$client = new Client;
$results = $client->lookup('google.com');

To-Do

Before Stable

• Expand the Server List locator to support IPv4
• Expand the Server List locator to support IPv6

Before V2/V1.5 (?)

• Look into supporting actual TLD lookups. (i.e. looking up "com" tld's whois info)

License

Whois Client PHP Library is open source software licensed under the GPLv3 license.