Net_GSQ API Question

Howdy, I'm trying to work on a better API for Net_GameServerQuery. The way it is now: $base = new net_gameserverquery; $server = $base->query(ip, port, game); print $server->ping(); print_r $server->players(); print_r $server->rules(); The problems with this are: If ping fails (because the server is down, not responding, etc) then the other 3 will fail. Testing the first for false, then doing the other 2 isn't very sexy. Some servers allow you to send requests concurrently, i.e. if I send /status/rules/ I'll get both the status, and the rules reply back. Although it's not neccesary to take advantage of this, it's certainly faster. So, what I'm thinking now: // Put ip/port/game into the loading of the class (much like dom_document, if you want to use the re-use the class, you create another instance) $server = new net_gameserverquery(ip, port, game); // query print_r $server->query(NET_GAMESERVERQUERY_REQUEST_PING, NET_GAMESERVERQUERY_REQUEST_STATUS, NET_GAMESERVERQUERY_REQUEST_RULES) Hardly very attractive I think using strings instead of constants, ie. 'ping', 'status', 'rules' is A Bad Thing. Anyone have any comments?