Hello, I am new to the forum and somewhat new to php, nice to meet you all. This is the first time I have ever really scripted with PHP so I'm still learning about all the tools I have and what I have to call things in PHP.
I have a list of urls and as I loop through each one, I'd like to be able to get information from the webpage. The <title> would be a good start. I also want to know the best way for me to compare data I have.
I'll show the basic code below, but I successfully go through each url in this text file. I put it in a <ul><li> list just fine. So if $url == http://www.youtube.com/file how is the normal way to check and see if the word "youtube" is in $url?
I found preg_match() but I think I'm approaching the whole thing wrong because I get no output. I am an intermediate to somewhat advanced scripter in other languages similar to php, I just need to learn how you do the normal things in PHP.
So I'd like to compare a string "youtube" to a variable '$url'. And I would like to be able to grab the title or other info from the file $url. Here is what I have so far. (Recent research showed me how I should do this with an XML file so I will probably change the .txt to .xml) Can you please tell me what to look for as I have been searching and can't really find a comprehensive answer.
I changed the whole page to an echo trying to fix something last night. Before it was written like..
<?php
if ($true) {
$var = value
?>
<html code>The value is <?php $var ?> .</html code>
<?php
}
?>
/index.php
<?php
include 'include/header.html';
echo "<div id='wrapper'>
<div id='left'>
<div class='article'>
<br />
<p>";
echo "Today is " . date("l") . ", the " . date("jS") . " of " . date("F") . ".";
$lines = file('data/news.txt');
if ($lines){
foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {
$url = htmlspecialchars($line);
//Now I have url. I want to check the url and get the <title> & misc. data.
//if youtube is in $url {html code to embed youtube};
//my attempt was $x = file($url); but I got a lot of 404 and 403 errors.
//now I fill html.
echo "<ul id='menu1' class='auroramenu'>
<li><a href='#'>Story ".$line_num."</a> <a style='display: none;' class='aurorashow' href='#'></a> <a style='display: inline;' class='aurorahide' href='#'></a>
<ul> <br />
<p>".$url."</p><br />
<li style='text-align:right;'><a href='".$url."' target='_blank'>Read the story.</a> </li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>";
}
}
echo "</p><br />
</div>
</div>
<div id='right'>";
include 'include/sidebar.html';
echo "</div><br class='clr' /></div><br />";
include 'include/footer.html';
?>
Thank you for your help.
