I have been looking into the Subversion system this weekend. I had never used it myself but have recently been looking for a solution to the problem of collaberation on website projects (eg. two people making a change to a website, one overwriting the changes of the other… oh my goodness thats annoying). Since looking into Subversion, I have installed it on my internal server (Windows SBS 2003) using http://svn1clicksetup.tigris.org and am using TortoiseSVN as the client… I am impressed! I have moved some of my projects over to Subversion and plan to add all new projects from now on. Read on for the repository layout article.
January 6, 2008
WHOIS lookups with PHP
I wanted to add WHOIS lookup capability to a recent project I was working on. I had never had a reason to implement a WHOIS lookup system before so I went in search of a simple system to lookup WHOIS records and then I would simply display the raw data.
I came across quite a few suggestions of scripts to do this, but I wanted to find something clean and logical. I ended up with the following code after modifying an existing script to suit my needs:
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