How do I run a WHOIS lookup with PHP or Python?

Question

So anyways, I\'m working on a small PHP website/script, and as one of the features I\'d like to be able to run a WHOIS lookup on the current domain the PHP script is running

Answer 1

To take Pavels answer one step further - this will break it down in to an array:

$whois = shell_exec("whois 45.118.135.255");

$result = explode("\n",$whois);

$out = array();
foreach ($result as $line){
    if (substr($line,0,1) == '%' || substr($line,0,1) == '#'){ continue; }

    $ps = explode(':',$line);
    $out[trim($ps[0])] = trim($ps[1]);
}

print '
'; print_r($out); print '
';