Whois script.

[Teach]

Hello.

We are currently trying to get this domain WHOIS script working, however whenever it's submitted to from our form (also shown below) we just get a blank page.

Any ideas?

<?php
 include_once('/home/us/header.php');

extract($_POST);
function whois($domain,$ext){
$url=$domain.$ext;
switch($ext){
case ".com":
$whois = "whois.networksolutions.com";
break;

case ".org":
$whois = "whois.publicinterestregistry.net";
break;

case ".net":
$whois = "whois.networksolutions.com";
break;

case ".co.uk":
$whois = "whois.nic.uk";
break;

case ".org.uk":
$whois = "whois.nic.uk";
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, "$url\r\n");
     print "<code>\r\n";
   while (!feof($f)) {
        echo fread($f,128);
     }
    print "</code>";
     fclose($f);
  }
}else{
echo "Invalid domain entered.";
}
}

 include_once('/home/us/footer.php');
?> 

and the form:

<form method="post" action="/whois.php">
Domain:</strong> ([url]http://www.[/url]) <input type="text" name="domain" size="10" />
<select name="ext">
<option value=".com">.com</option>
<option value=".org">.org</option>
<option value=".net">.net</option>
<option value=".co.uk">.co.uk</option>
<option value=".org.uk">.org.uk</option>
<option value=".biz">.biz</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search" />
</form>

Many thanks!
Regards,

[drew010]

well im not sure why the header and footer dont show up but the reason you see no data is because most of that code is wrapped in the function called 'whois' and it is never called using the parameters passed from post.

[Teach]

Hey drew.

The header and footer show up, just the content bit is completely blank where the whois reply should be.

Thanks.

[drew010]

just make sure somewhere in there you put

whois($_POST['domain'],$_POST['ext']);

[Teach]

Thank you drew!!!!

That is so very much appreciated, it's working now.

One last question please, the output comes out as a complete whole - no line breaks so it's just continous text.

The source code looks correct, but as we're using <code> and not <pre> the line breaks don't show, is there a way to deal with this without using the <pre>?

Again, MANY thanks.

[drew010]

use [man]nl2br[/man] as you retrieve the output.

[Teach]

Thanks. Just found out that and we used it elsewhere (not on this script) with the:

. nl2br(strip_tags($msg)) .

Whereabouts would that go? I tried wrapping it around both $url (failed) then $f?

Sorry! Hope you don't mind these continued questions.

[wilku]

As far as I got it right, here:

echo nl2br(fread($f,128)); 

[Teach]

Thank you.
That is working perfectly.

😃