Re: [phpwhois-discuss] [PATCH] FixResult broken on PHP5

[Dominik 'R. M. <do...@gr...>]

On Monday, 27 February 2006 at 08:17, David Saez Padros wrote:
> Hi !!
> 
> >I'm writing a DNSBL management system that'll make extensive use of
> >phpwhois. I'm adding a handler for .pl domains (will send later) and the
> >format is so atypical that I've written my own parser instead of using any
> >of those found in whois.parser.php. Basically it has some blocks, but data
> >within the blocks is RPSL-style except for nserver list and registrar's
> >data.
> >
> >While doing that, I've encountered a bug that caused the nserver
> >array to always contain only the last nameserver and only as
> >a ["" => hostname] pair.
> >
> >It took me over half an hour to figure this one out. Patch attached.
> 
> Thanx for the patch, i will add it to next release.

You're welcome. Note that I didn't actually test it on PHP4, but it
shouldn't break anything, either.

> Nevertheles i have to point that there is no need to write your own
> parser for .pl domains as that kind of output could be easely parsed by
> the current parser routines (you could use get_blocks to get the blocks
> and then generic_parser_b to get the data for each block)

I'd appreciate some help here, because much as I try to understand the
code, it seems overly cryptic, which combined with the complete lack of
documentation leaves me wanting to write my own parser from scratch.

Also, I think a handler for (some?) .edu domains is missing, try mit.edu
for example.

Regards,
R.

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