Complete whois info

[Patty]

First of all, thank you so much for offering such a great script! It's the best one I've found so far, and I tested many!

Only two things I'd like to suggest to improve it and make it nearly perfect:

1- Return of complete whois info. Your program only returns basic info on the domain, not returning any info about the registrant and contacts. I currently use AceWhois in my site (which I intend to switch to yours after finishing some tests), and doing a search on it returns full information on the domain. I tried changing the name servers for .com and .net for the ones I use with AceWhois to no avail, still the search doesn't return the full info. Can you improve it on your script so the search will return complete domain info?

2- I'd like to be able to pick a specific domain to show as default in the drop-down menu. I have about 80 listed domains on my drop-down and it would really make a difference to be able to have the one most searched as the default selection. Can't do it thru admin panel.

Other than that, this is really the best Whois script ever! Keep up the good work!

[Patrick]

I plan on adding #1 to the next version.

As for #2, you can, but it is a little bit of work since you want 80 extensions listed in all.

There are two ways of doing #2. The script intends for you to list the TLDs in order under the Default Display Extensions on the "Template Settings" page. Thus, the first listed would be the default extension. Unfortunately, you would also need to include the 79 other extensions since this would cause the script to ONLY display those extensions in the dropdown menu.

The other way of doing it is to copy & paste the generated dropbox from the whois.php page when visited in the browser into the appropriate templates on the Template Settings page, setting the default value / editing the HTML as you wish. The problem with this method is that it is static (and as such future versions of the whois script may break your whois functionality).

There is alot of advanced functionality in the next version (and other projects that I am working on) that are holding it up a little bit, but hopefully I will get the new version out within a month.

[Patty]

Great! I'm pleased to know a new version with new features is coming up. I'm working on renewing my site and I'm planning on releasing it within a month or so, so it's the right timming.

Thank you for your reply and I'm looking forward to the new version.

If there's anything I can do to help you spread the word about this script, I will, cause it's really THE BEST!

[Patty]

Hello. Any news about the new release?
No pushing, just wondering. :)

[Patrick]

I know, I have been busy. If you know PHP at all you can take the return results from the connection made in engine.php (in the lookup function), parse the results for the text "Whois Server:", (preg_match: "/whois server:?(.+)/i"), and then do an additional lookup with that $matches[1] value as the nameserver.

[Patty]

Thanks for your reply. :)

Unfortunatelly, I don't know how to code. I can find my way around customizing scripts, but I just can't code by myself.

If you can find the time to post some instructions, I'd really appreciate it, cause this is the only thing that's preventing me from using your script on my site as of now.

Thank you for your attention.

[Patrick]

I actually have this coded in. I expect to release the next version of the script within a day or two.

Some notable new features include the ability to cache the results (to save on queries), the ability to pull additional contact information (as you wanted), and several new advanced query options for specialty non-standard servers.

While all of the features are included, I still have to complete some testing. Since I do not release betas, I do alot of the testing on my own machines and that usually takes a day or two if I run into some bugs.

[Patty]

That's great news!! I don't mind waiting a bit longer to get a new version. :)
Thanks a lot! Now it's gonna be an even better script!