need help with PHP open source class

[Meir Kriheli]

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

Cheers
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Meir Kriheli