php get domain whois

This code show whois information of a domain.

$domain = 'digitalpoint.com';
$whois = '';
$connection = @fsockopen('whois.verisign-grs.com', 43);
if ($connection) {
	@fputs($connection, $domain ."\r\n");
	while (!feof($connection)) {
		$whois .= @fgets($connection, 128);
	}
}
fclose($connection);
echo $whois;

PHP:

but, when

$domain = 'cnn.com';

Code (markup):

result:

CNN.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
CNN.COM.IS.0WN3D.BY.GULLI.COM
CNN.COM

Any one can give me a hint how to get the correct whois information of that domain (lie cnn.com). Many thanks.

 

Hi,

why don't you use the built-in whois command in the linux server. Here is a sample code

<?php
/**
 * @file ipdomains.php
 *
 * A simple WHOIS (wrapper) object written in PHP. Specially for the LINUX servers.
 *
 * @author Saravanan <doraiswamy.saravanan@gmail.com>
 *
 *
 */

class whois
{
    var $cmd;

    function whois()
    {
        $this->set_whois_cmd();
        return;
    }
    
    function set_whois_cmd()
    {
        if (file_exists('/usr/local/bin/whois'))
        {
            $this->cmd = '/usr/local/bin/whois';
        }
        elseif (file_exists('/usr/bin/whois'))
        {
            $this->cmd = '/usr/bin/whois';
        }
        elseif (file_exists('/bin/whois'))
        {
            $this->cmd = '/bin/whois';
        }
        else
        {
            die("<h1>Error:</h1>\n<p>Couldn't locate the 'whois' program.</p>");
        }
    }
    
    function query($domain) 
    {
        /**
         * return the whois results with text linebreaks converted into html linebreaks 
         */
        return nl2br(shell_exec(escapeshellcmd($this->cmd ." ". $domain)));
    }
}

$ob = new whois();
echo $ob->query('google.com');
?> 

Code (markup):

regards,

d_s

 

Thank for your code, d_s