need help with PHP open source class

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Meir Kriheli <meir at 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.