php get DNS lookup details

Get details about DNS lookup of the domains with php.This simple php script can be used to get details about DNS lookup with MX records,text records,CNAME records,SOA…etc . Final result is getting 2D or 3D array of the DNS lookup details of the given domain.

$domainName = 'google.com';
$rec = dns_get_record($domainName, DNS_ALL); // get all records
print_r($rec);

Final output


Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[host] => webexplorar.com
[type] => MX
[pri] => 1
[target] => ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com
[class] => IN
[ttl] => 14400
)
[1] => Array
(
[host] => webexplorar.com
[type] => MX
[pri] => 5
[target] => ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com
[class] => IN
[ttl] => 14400
)
[2] => Array
(
[host] => webexplorar.com
[type] => MX
[pri] => 5
[target] => ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com
[class] => IN
[ttl] => 14400
)
[3] => Array
(
[host] => webexplorar.com
[type] => MX
[pri] => 10
[target] => ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.com
[class] => IN
[ttl] => 14400
)
[4] => Array
(
[host] => webexplorar.com
[type] => MX
[pri] => 10
[target] => ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.com
[class] => IN
[ttl] => 14400
)
[5] => Array
(
[host] => webexplorar.com
[type] => TXT
[txt] => v=spf1 +a +mx +ip4:204.152.255.8 ?all
[entries] => Array
(
[0] => v=spf1 +a +mx +ip4:204.152.255.8 ?all
)
[class] => IN
[ttl] => 14400
)
[6] => Array
(
[host] => webexplorar.com
[type] => SOA
[mname] => ns1.hostable.com
[rname] => noc.brinkster.com
[serial] => 2013012101
[refresh] => 86400
[retry] => 7200
[expire] => 3600000
[minimum-ttl] => 86400
[class] => IN
[ttl] => 86400
)

If you want to display DNS lookup details as formatted table, do that as following.

	$details ='';
	$data = '';
		  foreach ($rec as $arr => $num){
			  $details .='';
				 foreach ($num as $title => $value){
					 if(!is_array($value)){
						$details .='';
					 }
				 }
			  $details .='';
		  }
	$data .=$details.'
'.$value.'
';
	echo '
'.$data.'
';
Final output after formatted
webexplorar.com	MX	10	ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.com	IN	14400

webexplorar.com	MX	1	ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com	IN	14400

webexplorar.com	MX	5	ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com	IN	14400

webexplorar.com	MX	5	ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com	IN	14400

webexplorar.com	MX	10	ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.com	IN	14400

webexplorar.com	TXT	v=spf1 +a +mx +ip4:204.152.255.8 ?all	IN	14400

webexplorar.com	SOA	ns1.hostable.com	noc.brinkster.com	2013012101	86400	7200	3600000	86400	IN	86400

webexplorar.com	NS	ns1.hostable.com	IN	86400

webexplorar.com	NS	ns2.hostable.com	IN	86400

webexplorar.com	A	204.152.255.8	IN	14400



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