Whois command line

[glway]

Hi guys. Not to waste much of your time-i have a simple question more or less-im making a whois website, running on a fedora server. and what I need is a shell whois command which will check the domain and return a simple registered/unregistered or true/false or something like that so it will be easier to manipulate with php. thanks.

[Firewing1]

You could do this in many ways, the easiest is probably just to run "whois domain.tld" in the shell and then have PHP apply regular expressions on the command output to determine if it is registered or not. There is actually a fairly complete example of this in the user comments on the PHP shell_exec() manual page:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.shell-exec.php

You could do something similar to extract the registrant information when the domain exists, or return a simple "no match" page when the domain is unregistered.

[linuxwin2k]

Here another php example
http://www.softnik.com/blog/2009/09/...-name-lookups/