Domain WHOIS Script

I am looking to make a PHP script which extracts data from a domain WHOIS report. This is straight forward on UK domains but is there a website or api for other global domains? I would like to hear your suggestions on how I can do this.

 

have a look at this and this.

 

also here http://www.hotscripts.com/category/php/scripts-programs/networking-tools/whois/

 

Have a look at http://www.nott.org/blog/php-whois-script.html

 

Thanks for these, they have been very useful !

 

Nice scripts, I was looking for something similar and these links are great. Thanks!