How can PHP be utilized to perform a zone transfer for a specific domain in order to obtain information about the parent server?

To perform a zone transfer for a specific domain in order to obtain information about the parent server, you can use PHP to send a DNS query to the parent server requesting the zone transfer. This can be achieved by using the dns_get_record() function in PHP to retrieve the DNS records for the specified domain.

$domain = "example.com";
$records = dns_get_record($domain, DNS_ANY);
print_r($records);