Whois Client PHP Library

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Purpose

When you need to work with Whois lookups 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 its 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.

If you're looking for a higher level client, please use: Whodis.

Requirements

• PHP >= 8.1

Past PHP version support

PHP	Package
8.0	Current
7.4	2.0.7
7.3	1.2.1

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.

https://packagist.org/packages/mallardduck/whois-client

Stable version

composer require mallardduck/whois-client

Example usage

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use MallardDuck\Whois\Client;

$client = new Client('whois.nic.me');
$response = $client->makeRequest('danpock.me');
echo $response;

License

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