Domain Expiration Notify Script
Date: 03/17/2005
Author: Wayne Eggert
Introduction
If you're in the web hosting business, a
server admin, or heck.. just have too many domains at more registrars
than you can shake a stick at, you might be worried that eventually
you're going to miss re-registering an expiring domain. Most registrars
will send an email or two when your domain's about to expire, but they
don't go overboard to notify you. If you're not listed as a domain
contact or your email address changes, you need another way to make
sure the domains you're managing don't expire without giving you proper
notification. This script will should help keep your fears at ease and
hopefully give you proper notification of that impending doom that is
domain expiration =)
Creating the Database
First up is to create the
database table for the domain list. This isn't a very sophisticated
setup -- there's no backend to manage things, so you will have to be
good and aquainted with PHPMyAdmin.
`domainName` varchar(100) NOT NULL default '',
`registrar` varchar(100) NOT NULL default '',
`expiration` date NOT NULL default '0000-00-00',
`status` varchar(100) NOT NULL default '',
`lastChecked` timestamp(14) NOT NULL
) TYPE=MyISAM;
Example of what to enter in this database table for each domain you want to check:
domainName - "google.com"
registrar - "GoDaddy"
expiration - Leave Blank
status - Leave Blank
lastChecked - Leave Blank
Comments:
| Re: Expiration |
| Posted 09/21/09 6:17PM by AceBHound |
| Sounds like the $expiration string isn't getting built correctly. Before the SQL call to UPDATE the domains table, try echo'ing out the $expiration variable and see if it contains YEAR-MONTH-DAY (like 2009-12-31) or if it looks like "--". It's possible the WHOIS server you're using could be using a slightly different format and you'll need to adjust the code that parses out data from the WHOIS call. |
| Expiration |
| Posted 09/15/09 4:52PM by Anonymous Techdoser |
| Great script, everything seems to work well except the expiration field in my database does not update. |
| Thanks! |
| Posted 08/14/09 12:21PM by thomascim |
|
Hi Wayne, thanks very much for this useful code. One suggestion is maybe adding an extra field to the database table for the extension. This way you can also check domain extensions that have more or less than 3 characters like co.uk or .de, .eu, etc. Thanks again, Thomas |
| problem with exec() |
| Posted 02/06/09 4:28PM by jschrader |
|
I have installed the code, and am getting an error about the exec(), to be specific: Warning: exec() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/a5704353/public_html/notify.php on line 38 Free Web Hosting PHP Error Message Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/a5704353/public_html/notify.php on line 39 what is going on? |
| how to get the registrar |
| Posted 06/03/07 3:40PM by rocko |
|
Hi, I see your script. It is really good and help me a lot. But Im trying to use a registrar field. I use different string functions but I couldn't. There are any way to use the registrar field? Thanks in advance. |
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