[COLUG] PHP Question

[Duane]

Rob Robson wrote:
> Working on a PHP web page to get IP information into a variable and mail it back to me.  Having a problem 
> getting the whois data into the variable.
> 
> This line works Okay
> $ip = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR");   
> 
> This only returns one word or the last line of the lookup.
> $message = exec ('/usr/bin/whois "$ip"');
> 
> How do I get the complete whois info into $message ???

Unless you *KNOW* what you are doing, don't even bother trying to wrap
unsanitised text in quotes, it's a waste of time, *ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS*
use escapeshellarg(), in this case it's not as imperative until there is
a bug in your web daemon that can in turn exploit PHP :)

$ip = escapeshellarg($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);

Then just use back ticks. trim() is optional.

$whois = trim(`whois $ip`);

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 Duane

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