Re: function to variable?

And you also need to change 'message()' to something like '$msg' to capture that text also. or, what you could do is turn on output buffering and grab everything that is output ;-) -- Scott Hurring Systems Programmer EAC Corporation scott (*) eac.com -- "Hans Lellelid" <hans@forumone.com> wrote in message news:1027108429.5941.25.camel@lavoro.xmpl.org... > Hi Jas, > > I may be missing something here, but it looks as though you just need to > return() your $msg var and assign it in your main script. So, something > like: > > > function arin($ipaddy) > { > $server = "whois.arin.net"; > . > . > . > return $msg; > } > > > <?php > > $whois = arin($ipaddy); > > $sql = "INSERT INTO www_access (whois) > ('".addslashes($whois)."')"; > mysql_query($sql); > > ?> > > HTH, > Hans > > > On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 15:52, Jas wrote: > > Not sure how to accomplish what I would like to, I recently downloaded and > > installed a small Network tool from http://www.shat.net > > and I only need the > > results of one of the functions included to be passed as a variable to an > > input command for mysql. Here is the code, any help is appreciated! > > Jas > > <?php > > /* Check client info and register */ > > if (getenv(HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR)){ > > $ipaddy = getenv(HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR); > > } else { > > $ipaddy = getenv(REMOTE_ADDR); > > $host = gethostbyaddr($REMOTE_ADDR); } > > > > /* Start looking up users IP vs. WHOIS database for logging */ > > $nipaddy = ""; > > function message($msg){ > > echo "<font face=\"verdana,arial\" size=2>$msg</font>"; > > flush(); > > } > > function arin($ipaddy){ > > $server = "whois.arin.net"; > > message("<p><b>IP Whois Results:</b><blockquote>"); > > if (!$ipaddy = gethostbyname($ipaddy)) > > $msg .= "Can't IP Whois without an IP address."; > > else{ > > message("Connecting to $server...<br><br>"); > > if (! $sock = fsockopen($server, 43, &$num, &$error, 20)){ > > unset($sock); > > $msg .= "Timed-out connecting to $server (port 43)"; > > } > > else{ > > fputs($sock, "$ipaddy\n"); > > while (!feof($sock)) > > $buffer .= fgets($sock, 10240); > > fclose($sock); > > } > > if (eregi("RIPE.NET", $buffer)) > > $nextServer = "whois.ripe.net"; > > else if (eregi("whois.apnic.net", $buffer)) > > $nextServer = "whois.apnic.net"; > > else if (eregi("nic.ad.jp", $buffer)){ > > $nextServer = "whois.nic.ad.jp"; > > #/e suppresses Japanese character output from JPNIC > > $extra = "/e"; > > } > > else if (eregi("whois.registro.br", $buffer)) > > $nextServer = "whois.registro.br"; > > if($nextServer){ > > $buffer = ""; > > message("Deferred to specific whois server: > > $nextServer...<br><br>"); > > if(! $sock = fsockopen($nextServer, 43, &$num, &$error, 10)){ > > unset($sock); > > $msg .= "Timed-out connecting to $nextServer (port 43)"; > > } > > else{ > > fputs($sock, "$ipaddy$extra\n"); > > while (!feof($sock)) > > $buffer .= fgets($sock, 10240); > > fclose($sock); > > } > > } > > $buffer = str_replace(" ", "&nbsp;", $buffer); > > $msg .= nl2br($buffer); > > } > > $msg .= "</blockquote></p>"; > > message($msg); > > } > > ?> > > As of yet I have only been echoeing the results to the screen like: > > <?php echo arin($ipaddy) ?> Which works, but I do not want the results > > output to the screen for the view, I would like to assign a variable like > > $whois to the results of this function so I may stick it in the database for > > later retrieval. Any help on this would be great! > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > >