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Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] php4/configure.in.patch & php4/ext/standard/dns_get_record.patch From: Derick Rethans (derick <email protected>)
Date: 11/18/02

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Marcus Börger wrote:

> The last patch had some minor problems. Here is a reworked one attached.
> I did:
> -change php_error to php_error_docref
> -added some error messages which should be rewritten again
> i only wanted to point us to the problems.
> -collected the autoconf information into one single define which
> can be tested
> -ws fixes
> -minor fixes
> -made the old functions alias names to the new dns_xxx functions
>
> For me this stuff works now but i would expect dns_get_error(name,DNS_ANY)
> to return all possible records. But when i use the call with DNS_ANY i receive
> the NS records. To receive the A and MX entries i have to call the function
> with the DNS_A and DNS_MX respectively. See example below

Maybe it's a good idea to make the type a bitfield so that you can do
something like:

dns_get_record("php.net", DNS_A | DNS_MX); and then get something along
this back:

array(2) {
    ["A"]=>

    ["MX"]=>
}

I think that would be the most useful API.

Derick 

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