PHP Whois script - Help Needed

Hi Guys,
I've looked at the script and i could do with a hand!
What i ideally want it to know who has accessed my site and who there isp is.
I have found that if i use a website with whois setup on the IP address information.
I can put the client ip address in and get the ISP info back.

What i am looking for is a script that can do that.
You script comes close but i don't know how to amend it for IP address or how to have it simply return the information to the screen.

Any ideas on where i need to start?
I've also noticed that there is no .co.uk setup, is that easy to do?

Thanks

Peter

Hello Peter,

to get information about an IP address you don't need a Whois script like this one, try this code:

exec('whois 77.243.225.68', $str);
print_r($str);

Is this the information you're looking for?
Using this function you need 2 requirements:

1. access to the Linux command line (from PHP)
2. the Linux tool "whois" must be installed

Hi,
Well the code sort of works, i get a long string of data with [1].... [2].... information.
What i was hoping was to use the $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR' command to get the visiting users ip and then run it through this.
Is there a better way of displaying the information?

Is it just in an array? If so how do i look at parts of an array? is it like c?

Thanks

Pete

Hi,

yes using the variable $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] is how you do it.

Check first if the format for the result is always the same (it's possible that you need a different parser for different IP ranges).

Next you need to split the array into pieces, check the arrays section from the PHP Manual on php.net