Whois?

[micronicos]

Now we all know WHOIS is a brilliant tool, however I want to view JUST the dates from a whois search... none of that other garbage, need to know when the domain will expire when it was created and so on.... maybe nameservers.?

Just i dont know how to suck that info out of that output?

exec("/bin/whois $domain");
...??

Any ideas, may relate to other post i have about extracting text from a command, not sure if thesame would apply?

[bradgrafelman]

Look at using [man]shell_exec/man

[micronicos]

I do not want the full output displayed, i would like it to query if a string exists then do something if it does, if not check the next rule??.

Do i not need a true/false? if not what suggestions do you have?

I only want to output certain parts of a whois... if you whois a .co.uk from nominet and a .com from joker the output is different from each.

I need to query to see what registra is used then once thats discovered display output.

cant base it on TLD as output is different for joker and enom and .... etc

was thinking of seeing if the notes section at the bottom existed, choosing one line and if the line exists then STRSTR the data from the output?..

am i lookin at this the wrong way?