README

A domain name parser to parse and to validate a domain name.

At first it will parse a given string to split it by the hostname and top-level domain name. This will be done with a list from Mozilla and we also added some missing second-level domain names. Afterwards we will convert the domain name to it punycode and unicode notation. If an error occures by doing so, e.g. characters that are not allowed. It will kill these characters and set a flag to false. This flag is used for the validation.

Copyright (c) 2007 - 2013 Novutec Inc. (http://www.novutec.com) Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License").

Installation

Installing from source: git clone git://github.com/novutec/DomainParser.git or download the latest release

Move the source code to your preferred project folder.

Usage

• Include Parser.php

require_once 'DomainParser/Parser.php';

• Create Parser() object

$Parser = new Novutec\DomainParser\Parser();

• Call parse() method

$result = $Parser->parse($string);

• Please note, if the given string doesn't contain a domain name the default tld .com will be added to the query. You may change this by adding a tld to the parse method call.

$result = $Parser->parse($string, $yourPreferredDefaultTld);

• You may choose 5 different return types. the types are array, object, json, serialize and xml. By default it is object. If you want to change that call the format method before calling the parse method or provide to the constructer. If you are not using object and an error occurs, then exceptions will not be trapped within the response and thrown directy.

$Parser->setFormat('json');
$Parser = new Novutec\DomainParser\Parser('json');

3rd Party Libraries

Thanks to developers of following used libraries:

• phlyLabs: http://phlylabs.de
• mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org

ChangeLog

See ChangeLog at https://github.com/novutec/DomainParser/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Issues

Please report any issues via https://github.com/novutec/DomainParser/issues

LICENSE and COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007 - 2013 Novutec Inc. (http://www.novutec.com)

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.