note 95000 deleted from book.curl by googleguy

Note Submitter: eugene at ultimatecms dot co dot za ---- A simple whois/domain availability check using cURL: <?php function domain_check($domain) { $data = 'http://'.$domain; // Create a curl handle to a non-existing location $ch = curl_init($data); // Execute curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_exec($ch); // Check if any error occured if(curl_errno($ch)) { return '<span style="color:#22c922">The domain is available!</span>'; } else { return '<span style="color:#c92222">The domain is not available</span>'; } // Close handle curl_close($ch); } // Usage: if(isset($_POST['domain'])) { echo domain_check($_POST['domain'].$_POST['tld']); } ?> <form method="POST" action=""> http:// <input type="text" name="domain"> <select name="tld"> <option value=".com">.com</option> <option value=".net">.net</option> <option value=".biz">.biz</option> </option> <input type="submit" value="Check"> </form>