A simple whois domain look-up script. Checks different registrar server's for the whois information.

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By : Andrew

<?php
/*Simply place the code whois($domain,$ext); in any page and create a form with the fields domain and extension. A sample is listed below. You could add the whois($domain,$ext); to the bottom of this script and point a form to it and you will get the whois results. Please not the http://www. is not required.
*/
/*Form example:
<form action="http://mydomain.com/whois.php" method="post">Domain:(http://www.)<input type="text" name="domain"><br>Extension:&nbsp;
<select name="ext">
<option value=".co.uk">.co.uk</option>
<option value=".com">.com</option>
<option value=".biz">.biz</option>
<option value=".fr">.fr</option>
<selected>Please choose one..</selected>
</select>
<br><input type="submit" name="submit" value="look-up">
</form>
*/
extract($_POST);
function whois($domain,$ext){
$url=$domain.$ext;
switch($ext){
case ".co.uk":
$whois = "whois.nic.uk";
break;
case ".com":
$whois = "whois.networksolutions.com";
break;
case ".fr":
$whois = "whois.nic.fr";
break;
case ".biz":
$whois = "whois.biz";
break;
default:
$whois = "whois.networksolutions.com";
}
if (trim($url) <> "") {
$url = trim($url);
$f = fsockopen($whois, 43, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$f) {
echo "Connection To Server Failed ($errno)";
} else {
fputs($f, "$url\r\n");
print "<pre>\r\n";
while (!feof($f)) {
echo fread($f,128);
}
print "</pre>";
fclose($f);
}
}else{
echo "Invalid domain entered";
}
}
?>

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