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Interface to the DICT Protocol

This package is unmaintained.

Download latest release 1.0.7 (archived versions might be outdated)

License: PHP

Description

This class provides a simple API to the DICT Protocol handling all the
network related issues and providing DICT responses in PHP datatypes
to make it easy for a developer to use DICT servers in their programs.

Maintainers

• Chandrashekhar Bhosle (cnb) — lead, inactive
• Ian Eure (ieure) — lead, inactive

Dependencies

Required

• PHP (>= 4.3.0)
• PEAR Installer (>= 1.5.4)
• Net_Socket (>= 1.0)
• Cache (>= 1.5.2)

Releases

• 1.0.7 (stable, 2010-10-25)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  Automatically built QA release
  Bug #16817 code does not adhere to Standards - kguest

• 1.0.6 (stable, 2009-07-28)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  QA Release
  Package 2.0
  Bug #7018 - Patch / Warnings
  Bug #4811 - Example dict.php uses wrong path

• 1.0.5 (stable, 2006-05-08)
• 1.0.3 (stable, 2002-11-29)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  Definitions can now be cached (using PEAR Cache package). So you don't
  have to make a network connection for an already cached definition.
  $d = new Net_Dict;
  // make sure cache_dir is writable
  $d->setCache(true, 'file', array('cache_dir'=>'/tmp/cache/'));
  $defs = $d->define($keyword);

• 1.0.2 (stable, 2002-10-06)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  Fix: match() and define() support multi-part words. -- Thanks Xing Li.

• 1.0.1 (stable, 2002-10-05)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  Fixed a bug in define() where dictionary sources other then the first
  were not shown. -- Thanks Xing Li for pointing it out.

• 1.0 (stable, 2002-09-24)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  This is the initial release of the Net_Dict package.

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