# Building a WHOIS page in PHP?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/building-a-whois-page-in-php/188203>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [May 5, 2006, 8:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/building-a-whois-page-in-php/188203 "2006-05-05T08:42:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![ya3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@ya3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ya3)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 8:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/building-a-whois-page-in-php/188203/1 "2006-05-05T08:42:18Z")

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You know, just a page with a form on it. Type in a domain, it returns WHOIS details.

How would you do this? I’ve got no idea… Should I just Google up some pre-coded PHP thing?