PHP + whois question

[peter]

Hey!

OK, lets say I have dnforum.com as a variable. Is there any URL I can call with the name in the call which returns the expiry date?

Or how do you guys do?

 

[domains1357]

use this function:
it will return complete whois reply (if it fails it will return empty string)

function whois($query, $server='whois.networksolutions.com', $port=43)
{
	$query = strtolower(str_replace(array('www.','http://'), array('',''), $query));

	$f = @fsockopen($server,$port);
	if(!$f)
	{
		return '';
	}

	$result = '';
	fputs($f,"$query\r\n");
	while(!feof($f))
	{
		$result.=fgets($f,128);
	}
	fclose($f);

	return $result;
}

 

[Brujah]

http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Networking_Tools/Whois/

 

[peter]

domains: yeah thanks, but I know how to get the whole whois. I will check hotscripts!

Thanks

 

[domains1357]

ohh.. sorry. i thought you will be able to extract expiration date from whois reply. here is function that can do it (will return empty string if cannot find expiration date):

note: it uses whois() function that i wrote in previous message.

function expiration_date($domain)
{
	$res = whois($domain);
	$arr = explode("\n", $res);
	for($i=0; $i<count($arr); $i++)
	{
		$pos = strpos($arr[$i],'Record expires on ');
		if($pos !== false)
		{
			$str = substr($arr[$i],$pos+18,11);
			return $str;
		}
	}
	return '';
}

 

[peter]

oh of course.
Thanks!

My mind isn't really working today after spending all of the day on the damn crowded copenhagen airport (snowstorms)

 

[Sheva]

icehole, I just saw on the news in Italy the Copenhagen airport with all people waiting and snow too.

Mike