Manual

Provides an API for accessing Whois services

Net_Whois::query()

Net_Whois::query() – does a whois query

Synopsis

require_once 'Net/Whois.php';

string Net_Whois::query ( string $query , string $server )

Description

Executes a Whois query on a server

Parameter

string $query - the Whois database object to look up
string $server - the name of the server or its IP address

Return value

string - the data from the Whois request.

Throws

Possible PEAR_Error values
Error code	Error message	Reason	Solution
every	" Error connecting to `server` (Net_Socket says: `Error-Message`.) "	Connection to server failed	Check typing of server address and make sure the host is connected to the network.

You will not get a PEAR_Error, if the query fails due to a not existing whois object. This can be only done by checking the data returned by query().

Example

Using Whois-query()

<?php
require_once "Net/Whois.php";

$server = "whois.denic.de";
$query  = "phpcrawler.de";     // get information about
                               // this domain
$whois = new Net_Whois;
$data = $whois->query($query, $server);
echo $data;
?>