Hi there,
I'm trying to do a whois lookup from one of the domain sources here in South Africa. I've setup the form to submit with an ajaxSubmitButton and replace the result in a div called whois_data, however I end up getting some jquery error
Whois server GET url looks like this
http://co.za/cgi-bin/whois.sh?Domain=yourDomainName&Enter=Enter
Here's my WhoisForm's code
<div class="yiiForm">
<?php echo CHtml::beginForm(); ?>
<?php echo CHtml::errorSummary($whois); ?>
<?php echo CHtml::activeLabel($whois,'domain'); ?>
<?php echo CHtml::activeTextField($whois,'domain',array('name'=>'Domain')).'co.za' ?>
<div class="whois_data">
<!-- data -->
</div>
<?php echo CHtml::ajaxSubmmitButton('Enter',
"http://co.za/cgi-bin/whois.sh",
array('replace'=>'.whois_data','type'=>'GET','dataType'=>'text'),
array('name'=>'Enter')); ?>
</div>
<?php echo CHtml::endForm(); ?>
This is the error returned with Firebug
Access to restricted URI denied" code: "1012
xhr.open(type, s.url, s.async);
I actually want to make some alterations on the text that get returned from the whois server so I'll have to store it as a string.
How would I go about acieving this?
There are some restrictions due to cross-domain policy.
In most cases you cannot request external site via ajax calls.
Is there any other way of getting the results from the whois request and displaying in a Yii view?
Ok, found a solution with a little help from this post by Gapz here
I create a function in a Helper component class and called it via Ajax
Here's my code
<?php
class Helpers
{
public static function cozaCurlCheck($domain)
{
$ch=curl_init();
$url="http://co.za/cgi-bin/whois.sh?Domain=";
$url.=$domain;
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,0);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,4);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_REFERER,"http://co.za/whois.shtml");
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
$data=curl_exec($ch);
if(curl_error($ch)=="")
{
echo $data;
}
else
{
curl_close($ch);
$layout="<tr>n<td>nAn Error Occured in connecting to the whois server</td>n</tr>n";
echo $layout;
exit;
}
}
}
?>
SiteController
<?php
public function actionRegister()
{
if(Yii::app()->request->isAjaxRequest)
{
if(isset($_POST['domain']))
{
echo Helpers::cozaCurlCheck($_POST['domain']);
}
}
else
{
$this->render('register');
}
}
?>
Register View
<?php
<div class="yiiForm">
<?php echo CHtml::form(); ?>
<?php //echo CHtml::errorSummary(); ?>
Domain
<?php echo CHtml::textField('domain').'co.za' ?>
<?php echo CHtml::ajaxSubmitButton('Enter',
array('register'),
array('type'=>'POST','update'=>'#whois_data'),
array('name'=>'Enter')); ?>
</div>
<div id="whois_data">
<!-- data -->
</div>
<?php echo CHtml::endForm(); ?>
?>
Voila, the returned text that is returned needs to be formatted and that's a wrap
